New: syslinux build install tools
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=13681
Bug ID: 13681
Summary: syslinux build install tools
Product: buildroot
Version: 2021.02
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: Other
Assignee: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
Reporter: moelzerjens at gmail.com
CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
Target Milestone: ---
The way the syslinux install tools are currently built doesn't make a lot of sense imho: The only tool that's installed is extlinux and that is only built for the host. That's not really useful as extlinux needs root, so it can't cleanly be used to automatically generate disk images on the host. The syslinux/mtools-syslinux tools that could be used for disk image generation without root on the host are only built for the target and not installed (they can be found in the build folder).
Therefore I propose the following improvements:
1) Provide an option to build extlinux for the target like the grub2 package "install tools" option (BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_INSTALL_TOOLS).
2) Build the syslinux/mtools-syslinux installer for the host to facilitate scripted disk image generation. It might be beneficial to integrate the syslinux patches from Yocto Project [1] that extend syslinux support to ext2/3/4 as well.
[1]
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/meta/recipes-devtools/syslinux/syslinux/
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[Buildroot] [Bug 13681] syslinux build install tools
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=13681
--- Comment #1 from Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 8841
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Draft patch installing syslinux mtools for the host
In case it helps, here is a patch I never had the time to clean up and submit properly to Buildroot, but it does build the syslinux mtools installer for the host.
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[Buildroot] [Bug 13681] syslinux build install tools
In reply to bugzilla at busybox.nethttps://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=13681
Yann E. MORIN <[email protected]> changed:
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