[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/8] package/mender: add BR2_PACKAGE_MENDER_DEVICE_TYPE option

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:26:46 +0200, Mirza Krak wrote:

> > I am a bit confused with "Note that /data is a mount point for the
> > persistent data partition". If /data is a different partition than the
> > root filesystem one, then what is the point of
> > having /data/mender/device_type in the root filesystem ? It will be
> > hidden by whatever partition gets mounted in /data.  
> 
> Understand the confusion, my intention was to convert the /data
> directory on target image to an ext4 image in a post build step

Why do you want to do this ?

Thomas
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