hey Anibal,

ok, thanks for sharing..

To be honest, I think we should figure out how to add sparse image
support in oe-core directly. I tried in the past, but it didn't get
merge, most likely i didn't follow up enough..

cheers
nico

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:43 PM Anibal Limon <anibal.limon@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I changed the RPB qcom-lt builds to use docker-buster-amd64 because we have been experimenting image corruption with ext2simg tool in new RPB zeus builds [1], there is a related bug report [1] and that's the reason why our Debian builds uses img2simg.
>
> I tried to use img2simg in Debian stretch but is an old version (5.x) and fails to create images when are small size (ramdisk).
>
> So it's a good opportunity to change the docker builder to Debian buster with a newer img2simg (8.x) tool in qcom-lt builds, I made the change  in a way that doesn't affect current builds that uses Debian stretch [3] and give time to other users to switch (if needed).
>
> Regards,
> Anibal
>
> [1] https://validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/1965964
> [2] https://discuss.96boards.org/t/ext2simg-is-corrupting-custom-rootfs/8792
> [3] https://git.linaro.org/ci/job/configs.git/commit/?id=2798029ae4a2772c9b51efc329926211afda0804