Build Mirte image using Packer

Install

run sudo ./packerInstall.sh to download required packages.

Build

Run sudo ./packerBuild.sh to build the image. Will take some time Put your local files in git_local/ and they will be copied edit settings.sh to select features and extra scripts and edit repos.yaml to select the repositories/branches.

Build as workflow in Docker

Install act and run ./actBuild.sh. It will run the workflows and copy the artifacts to ./artifacts/. This will not use any changes in git_local or repos.yaml.

Shell to edit

run ./shell.sh <img file> and you will get a shell after some time. You can create new shells by using sudo chroot /tmp/armimg-XXX. Stop by removing the /stopshell file. It will create your fresh image in shell_workdir.

/bin/sh Exec format error:

sudo apt remove qemu-user-static -y && sudo apt install qemu-user-static

VCS issues:

When you get

=== ./mirte-arduino-libraries (git) ===
    arm-image.mirte_orangepizero: Could not clone repository 'https://github.com/arendjan/mirte-arduino-libraries.git': fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.

when building for orange pi Zero (1), you have a qemu version that has some issues, including a qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (segmentation fault) - core dumped when using git. Update the qemu installation on your host computer by adding a ppa ( sh sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-server/server-backports) and updating qemu. This should resolve the issues.

TODOS:

• npm prebuilt

Editing the latest build

Install gh or download from releases.

gh run download #select type
sudo ./shell.sh ...
# at end, exit out of the chroot
# output in shell_workdir/....shrunk_$date.img.xz