Jan Lübbe

> I also would not know of good use cases where a _pre-install_ hook needs access to the _target_ partition. The way more common use case would be to use...

> @jluebbe I take it you are still overall in favor of adding native `syslog()` support in this form? Or would you prefer closing this in favor of the native...

@troglobit Do you need some help for the testing side? If that's blocking you, we could try to find some time to prepare something there.

The intent of the agent functionality is to avoid having any dependencies on the exporter, which is the opposite of what this PR would introduce: a specific (likely manually deployed)...

Alternatively, using [`FICLONERANGE`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_ficlonerange.2.html) when supported would give faster "copies" almost everywhere in genimage. I'd expect that we have the necessary alignment (4kiB, I think) in almost every case.

> Or `copy_file_range()`. But I don't think either is supported by ext4, so while it would be a nice fallback, we should still implement writing in place. As far as...

> I'm investigating using labgrid for validating U-Boot with multiple pytest tests inside a single file, for multiple targets. Not sure it's the best practice but I intuitively went for...

From the manpage it seems that `--xattrs` should be enough. Do you know if this is supported by busybox tar as well?

So far, RAUC didn't have support for extended attributes with tar images, so adding support for them would be a new features. Accordingly we need to understand the implications and...

Very interesting! I just took a quick look: - Would it be possible to use the partition index as RAUC bootname (setting it on the firmware partitions)? In that case,...