Pre-provision your SimpleSwitch™ images

For all SimpleSwitch™ images you can provision files and folders in the /apps partition directly from the build system, so users can edit them in an installed image with the help of e.g. simpleswitch-filebrowser.

This supports also copying files and folders from all pre-installed SIMPLESWITCH_PACKAGES.

Provisioning support for recipes

By adding

inherit simpleswitch-provision-recipe

to your recipe and then setting up

SIMPLESWITCH_PROVISION_FILES:append = " <source file or folder>:<destination file or folder>"

you can copy over files and folders if that recipe is part of a SimpleSwitch™ image.

For instance

SIMPLESWITCH_PROVISION_FILES:append = " ${datadir}/myapp/config:/myapp/config"

would copy the file /usr/share/myapp/config to /apps/myapp/config.

Note

if ${datadir}/myapp/config is a folder it will copy the whole folder

Add dynamically provisioning

If you want to create files dynamically for provisioning, you can use

pkg_postinst:${SIMPLESWITCH_PROVISION_PACKAGE}:append () {
   if [ -n "$PROVISION_DIR" ]; then
      # create files and folders
      # please make sure that everything is installed into $PROVISION_DIR
      # e.g. echo "SimpleSwitch is great" > $PROVISION_DIR/message-of-the-day.txt
   fi
}

into your recipe that has inherit simpleswitch-provision-recipe included.