[Devel] Status of rpi-imager images of Apertis

[Bird, Tim]

Andrej,

Thanks for the quick response!  I'll check out bmaptool.

I think a command line tool might work best to the automated testing I would like
to do anyway, so that's a very useful bit of information.
 -- Tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel <devel-bounces at lists.apertis.org> On Behalf Of Andrej Shadura
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 3:11 PM
> To: devel at lists.apertis.org
> Subject: Re: [Devel] Status of rpi-imager images of Apertis
> 
> Hello Tim,
> 
> First of all, thanks for your message, it’s great to see interest in
> Apertis on Raspberry Pi.
> 
> On 16/08/2022 22:51, Bird, Tim wrote:
> > Hello Apertis developers,
> >
> > I would like to experiment with Apertis on a raspberry PI board, and I was interested to
> > see that there are Apertis entries that show up in the rpi-imager tool, to create an sdcard
> > for OS installation on a raspberry pi.
> >
> > However, when I choose one of the Apertis images with rpi-imager, I get an error:
> > "Error downloading: The requested URL returned error: 404 - Server IP: 46.235.227.188"
> > I got the same error for other images (I tried Apertis Headless image and Apertis Graphics image).
> >
> > The Image URL reported by rpi-imager is:
> > https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.1/arm64/hmi/apertis_v2022-hmi-arm64-rpi64_v2022.1.img
> >
> > Note that I can ping images.apertis.org.
> >
> > Looking at the images site manually, I see that there is a file:
> > https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.1/arm64/hmi/apertis_v2022-hmi-arm64-rpi64_v2022.1.img.gz
> > (that is, the image filename but with the .gz extension), but indeed there is no file ending in just .img.
> 
> I have verified the file
> https://images.apertis.org/rpi/apertis-oslist-stable.json that the
> rpi-image tool uses, and indeed, it links to the non-compressed image,
> whereas we only publish compressed images.
> 
> I believe this should mean the scripts we use to generate this file may
> be buggy. I’ll file an issue to have this looked at.
> 
> > Are Apertis images still being created and supported for the rpi-imager tool?
> > Is this just a bad URL path issue?
> > Should the rpi-image database refer to the img.gz file, or should the .img file be on the images.apertis.org site?
> > Are the raspberry pi images meant to be up-to-date?
> >
> > My purpose to use these images is to test some automated testing tools (Fuego) with Apertis.
> 
>  From what I can see, the daily builds should be downloadable with
> rpi-imager, as the image list file for them has the correct URLs.
> 
> Meanwhile, I can recommend you use bmaptool to write the image directly
> to the SD card like this:
> 
>      bmaptool copy
> https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.1/arm64/hmi/apertis_v2022-hmi-arm64-rpi64_v2022.1.img.gz
> /dev/mmcblk0
> 
> While a command-line tool, bmaptool is very robust, can automatically
> download and verify images, decompress them on the fly, and skip
> unallocated parts of the image, speeding up the process.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
>    Andrej
> 
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