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Changes in v5 from the cover letter

1. Fix the error of 'read -f' in populate-volatile.sh. The '-f' should should not be there.
2. Fix the error of missing colon in populate-volatile.sh.

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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/10init-live.sh: make $ROOT_MOUNT/media writable when necessarymeta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh+2 -00 replies
2/10use a uniform way to determine whether rootfs is read-onlymeta/classes/image.bbclass meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh +6 more+69 -90 replies
3/10udev: remove implicit dependency on initscriptsmeta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init+12 -40 replies
4/10populate-volatile.sh: use $ROOT_DIR/var/volatile/tmp as TMPDIRmeta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh+1 -11 reply
5/10populate-volatile.sh: don't spawn background process at rootfs timemeta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh+3 -30 replies
6/10runqemu-internal: fix to start X correctly in live imagesscripts/runqemu-internal+1 -10 replies
7/10initscripts: use a uniform way to handle directories in read-only rootfsmeta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/read-only-rootfs-hook.sh meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb+45 -40 replies
8/10populate-volatile.sh: use 'cp -a' to avoid potential problemmeta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh+2 -10 replies
9/10irda-utils: fix for read-only rootfsmeta/recipes-connectivity/irda-utils/irda-utils-0.9.18/init+2 -110 replies
10/10openssh: fix for read-only rootfsmeta/classes/image.bbclass meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-6.2p2/init meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.2p2.bb+35 -80 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH V5 00/10] Make read-only rootfs work with live images

From: Chen Qi <[email protected]>

Changes from V4:
1. Fix the error of 'read -f' in populate-volatile.sh. The '-f' should should not be there.
2. Fix the error of missing colon in populate-volatile.sh.

Changes from V3:
1. Take hidden directories and files into consideration when copying before bind mounting.
2. Use 'cp -a' in populate-volatile.sh to avoid potential problems

Change from V2:
1. modify the irda init script so that it doesn't necessarily need to write to /etc/sysconfig/irda
2. drop the lighttpd patch
3. modify the logic for openssh in case of a read-only rootfs

Change from V1:
1. Disable the generating of ssh keys at rootfs time
2. Add a mechanism to read-only-rootfs-hook.sh to check whether a directory is on a read-only partition.
3. Fix a new bug#4937 (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4937)

The following changes since commit f63e7f4323368c0d6fe7a1d44393a7e15652d4f2:

subversion: Add patch to use neon 0.30 (2013-08-07 07:43:47 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib ChenQi/read-only-rootfs-in-live-images
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/read-only-rootfs-in-live-images

Chen Qi (10):
init-live.sh: make $ROOT_MOUNT/media writable when necessary use a uniform way to determine whether rootfs is read-only
udev: remove implicit dependency on initscripts populate-volatile.sh: use $ROOT_DIR/var/volatile/tmp as TMPDIR populate-volatile.sh: don't spawn background process at rootfs time
runqemu-internal: fix to start X correctly in live images
initscripts: use a uniform way to handle directories in read-only
rootfs
populate-volatile.sh: use 'cp -a' to avoid potential problem
irda-utils: fix for read-only rootfs
openssh: fix for read-only rootfs

 meta/classes/image.bbclass                         |   16 +++++--
 .../irda-utils/irda-utils-0.9.18/init              |   13 +-----
 .../openssh/openssh-6.2p2/init                     |   22 ++++++---
 meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.2p2.bb |    9 +++-
 meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh |    2 +
 .../initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions          |   14 ++++++
 .../initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh           |   15 ++++--
 .../initscripts-1.0/read-only-rootfs-hook.sh       |   48 ++++++++++++++++++--
 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb   |    5 ++
 meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/rcS-default    |    4 --
 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init                   |   21 +++++++--
 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache             |    5 ++
 .../0001-add-is_rootfs_readonly-to-functions.patch |   37 +++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.48.bb   |    1 +
 scripts/runqemu-internal                           |    2 +-
 15 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts/0001-add-is_rootfs_readonly-to-functions.patch
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