lukechilds
commented
4 years ago Thanks, Gladys looks like a cool project!
Regarding your question - I'm not sure but I would imagine so, yes.
Try:
- Downloading a fresh Raspbian image
- Booting it with
docker run -it -v /path/to/raspbian.img:/sdcard/filesystem.img lukechilds/dockerpi:vm - Install Gladys
- Shut down
- Write
/path/to/raspbian.imgto an SD card - Put SD card in a Raspberry Pi and see if it boots
If everything works as expected then /path/to/raspbian.img is your working image built without the requirement of a physical Pi.
You can probably automate this much more efficiently by just mounting the Raspbian image and writing your built binaries to it. No need to emulate a full Pi.
That would also be much safer incase you end up accidentally generating artefacts you don't users sharing such as PGP/SSH keys etc.
But this emulation method would definitely be a good improvement over your current method of requiring a physical Pi.
I'll close this issue for now but please report back how you get on if you try it!
First, thanks for this amazing work ! 👏
I'm the founder of Gladys Assistant, it's an open-source home automation software which runs on a Raspberry Pi.
We distribute to our users a Raspbian image with Gladys pre-installed on it, and for now we build this image manually (we clone an empty raspbian on an ARMv6 Pi, then install Gladys, then backup the image and distribute the
.img)Does your Docker image can be used to build a .img file without having to use a Raspberry Pi?
If yes, it's just amazing!
Btw, I just saw that you are working full-time on open-source and you're digital-nomad. I'm DN as well, and working part-time on open-source. Would love to chat with you, I followed you on Twitter, I'm @pierregillesl.