[Devel] Status of rpi-imager images of Apertis

[Bird, Tim]

Great!   I'll try making a stable image today with rpi-imager.

Note, I was able to make a daily image earlier this week, and have been tinkering with Apertis the
last few days.

Thanks for the quick fix!
 -- Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova at collabora.com>
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> We have now fixed the URLs for the rpi-imager.
> Thank you for reporting the issue.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Detlev.
> 
> On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 6:39:21 P.M. EDT Bird, Tim wrote:
> > 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-h
> > > mi-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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