# # Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT # # System extension images may – dynamically at runtime — extend the # /usr/ and /opt/ directory hierarchies with additional files. This is # particularly useful on immutable system images where a /usr/ and/or # /opt/ hierarchy residing on a read-only file system shall be # extended temporarily at runtime without making any persistent # modifications. ## Example usage: # extension-image-example.bb #SUMMARY = "An example image to showcase a system extension image." #LICENSE = "MIT" #inherit discoverable-disk-image sysext-image #IMAGE_FEATURES = "" #IMAGE_LINGUAS = "" #IMAGE_INSTALL = "gdb" # ## After building, the resulting 'extension-image-example-*sysext.rootfs.ddi' # can be deployed to an embedded system (running from a RO rootfs) and # 'merged' into the OS by following steps: ## 1. place a symlink into the systemd-sysext image search path: # $> mkdir /run/extensions # $> ln -s /tmp/extension-example.sysext.ddi /run/extensions/example.raw ## 2. list all available extensions: # $> systemd-sysext list ## 3. and enable the found extensions: # $> SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-sysext merge # Note: PACKAGECONFIG:pn-systemd needs to include 'sysext' # systemd-sysext [1] has a simple mechanism for version compatibility: # the extension to be loaded has to contain a file named # /usr/lib/extension-release.d/extension-release.NAME # with "NAME" part *exactly* matching the filename of the extensions # raw-device filename/ # # From the extension-release file the "ID" and "VERSION_ID" fields are # matched against same fields present in `os-release` and the extension # is "merged" only if values in both fields from both files are an # exact match. # # Link: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-sysext.html inherit image # Include '.sysext' in the deployed image filename and symlink IMAGE_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}${IMAGE_MACHINE_SUFFIX}${IMAGE_VERSION_SUFFIX}.sysext" IMAGE_LINK_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}${IMAGE_MACHINE_SUFFIX}.sysext" EXTENSION_NAME = "${IMAGE_LINK_NAME}.${IMAGE_FSTYPES}" # Base extension identification fields EXTENSION_ID_FIELD ?= "${DISTRO}" EXTENSION_VERSION_FIELD ?= "${DISTRO_VERSION}" sysext_image_add_version_identifier_file() { # Use matching based on Distro name and version echo 'ID=${EXTENSION_ID_FIELD}' > ${WORKDIR}/extension-release.base # os-release.bb does "sanitise_value(ver)", which needs to be done here too echo 'VERSION_ID=${EXTENSION_VERSION_FIELD}' \ | sed 's,+,-,g;s, ,_,g' \ >> ${WORKDIR}/extension-release.base # Instruct `systemd-sysext` to perform re-load once extension image is verified echo 'EXTENSION_RELOAD_MANAGER=1' >> ${WORKDIR}/extension-release.base install -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${nonarch_libdir}/extension-release.d install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/extension-release.base \ ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${nonarch_libdir}/extension-release.d/extension-release.${EXTENSION_NAME} # systemd-sysext expects an extension-release file of the exact same name as the image; # by setting a xattr we allow renaming of the extension image file. # (Kernel: this requires xattr support in the used filesystem) setfattr -n user.extension-release.strict -v false \ ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${nonarch_libdir}/extension-release.d/extension-release.${EXTENSION_NAME} } ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "sysext_image_add_version_identifier_file" # remove 'os-release' from the packages to be installed into the image. # systemd-sysext otherwise raises the error: # Extension contains '/usr/lib/os-release', which is not allowed, refusing. PACKAGE_EXCLUDE += "os-release"