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davidferguson
Ability to add custom packages prior to first boot.
Feature Request to add packages prior to the first boot so when first boot occurs the binaries can already be in place and NOT require an internet connection.
Side note: This is awesome.
I presume you're talking about the "Install Package"block with this - although this would be a very nice feature to have, it won't work with the current block system I've got, where no block code is actually run by PiBakery rather it's all run by the Raspberry Pi.
The only workaround for now is for popular packages to make individual blocks for them that have the package included (like I did for the "VNC Server" block) which would make them run offline.
If I ever do change the block system (which is a bit unlikely as I want to try and make all new blocks compatible with previous PiBakery versions) I'll be sure to add this in.
Actually I was more thinking something along the lines of using the same interface to build the image itself.
Base Install Java 8 SDK Custom Package X
it would just build the filesystem image with the scripts and packages pre installed. Leveraging QEMU where necessary.
I've never used QEMU, although I understand what you're saying with this. It's not something I'm considering at the moment, as right not I'm concentrating on block requests, bug fixes, and adding support for Raspbian lite, but in the future I'll have a look and see if it's possible.
If, however, you have an idea of how this could be achieved, the code for the PiBakery application is also on GitHub, and you're welcome to have a play with it.
@huhlig It sounds more like you're looking for https://github.com/RPi-Distro/spindle which AFAIK is what is used to build the Raspbian images found on https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
It looks like Its based on this instead. Might be worth adding a new root block that can run and build a custom image. Basically you have a Initial Image block with the same things that will run the bootstrap, then first boot and every boot stuff.
It looks like Its based on this instead.
Looks like you're right.
Might be worth adding a new root block that can run and build a custom image.
IMHO that's way way outside of the scope of PiBakery. But it's all open source, so I'm sure it'll be fascinating to see what you're able to come up with :-)
IMHO that's way way outside of the scope of PiBakery. But it's all open source, so I'm sure it'll be fascinating to see what you're able to come up with :-)
Agreed, PiBakery won't ever support that unless someone else writes that for me. I'm also assuming that it doesn't work on Windows, which is the main userbase for PiBakery.
I'm also assuming that it doesn't work on Windows
Indeed - spindle and pi-gen both rely on loopback-mounts and ext4 filesystems, neither of which Windows supports.
A variation would be add the packages to the image and install them using dpkg, this way you could install packages without internet connection
...but I guess for that to work reliably, PiBakery would need to be able to download and parse the APT package lists, so it could also download any packages the 'requested' package depends on? ;)