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[Mattias Backman <829220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd say that the proper fix for this release is to make the u-boot
package install the bin in /boot or link to that path, as Kalle
suggests. That would make this hwpack behave like all the previous
versions, and it's probably the solution with least effort involved.

When time permits we should change the format of the startupfiles.cfg so
that absolute file names are specified. This means that the hwpack has
to be respun anyway and that older hwpacks might break. Long term it's a
better solution since full control is handed to whoever creates the
hwpack.

Something along the lines of Matt's patch would work but that would mean
dragging along the extra checks for the lifetime of this particular
hwpack. I'd like to avoid that unless there's no way we can re-do the
hwpack with either a fixed u-boot package or a startfiles packages with
absolute paths.

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Title:
  linaro-media-create fails for snowball_emmc

Status in Linaro Image Tools:
  New
Status in Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Project:
  New

Bug description:
  Using the following command to create a Snowball emmc image fails with
  current (updated on 18th of August) l-m-c:

  linaro-media-create --image_file customSnowballImage.img --dev
  snowball_emmc --rootfs ext3 --hwpack hwpack_linaro-lt-
  snowball_20110818-0_armel_supported.tar.gz --binary
  nano-n-tar-20110818-1.tar.gz

  The bottom of the trace is:

    File "/work/snowball/linaro/leb/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/media_create/boards.py", line 835, in get_file_info
      size = os.path.getsize(filename)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py", line 49, in getsize
      return os.stat(filename).st_size
  OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpmr5VH2/binary/boot/u-boot.bin'

  which would suggest that the u-boot.bin from the u-boot package is not
  installed correctly. And indeed, looking at the u-boot package it
  installs u-boot.bin to /usr/lib/u-boot/u8500_snowball and doesn't
  contain eg. linking to /boot, where the startupfiles package installs
  its binaries and the configuration that refers to u-boot.bin (and
  which l-m-c reads when creating the emmc image).

  So it seems that either startupfiles should have a startfiles.cfg that
  points to the correct u-boot location or the u-boot package should
  install (or link) the u-boot.bin to /boot.

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