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The home of Raspberry Pi Imager, a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.
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[FEATURE]: Pass config via CLI options #946

Open pajasry opened 1 week ago

pajasry commented 1 week ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like to automatize the deployment of pi images for my projects. It would be usefull to be able configure WiFi and other setting using script instead of UI.

Describe the solution you would like to see implemented

Pass config.txt to image writer in CLI mode

Describe alternatives you've considered

Making custom first-run script, but it is not ideal solution.

Additional context

The config is parsed only in GUI mode, in CLI mode is always ommited. See https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/blob/879b89cae1e35d5d6dd6b26aa269a0f3e260a5c3/src/cli.cpp#L211 and https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/blob/879b89cae1e35d5d6dd6b26aa269a0f3e260a5c3/src/cli.cpp#L189

Version

1.9.2 (Default)

tdewey-rpi commented 3 days ago

Thanks for the report, @pajasry

CLI already supports using the cloud-init configuration scheme, as your included line highlights. This mechanism is currently supported on Ubuntu Server only (I believe), but we are looking to change Raspberry Pi OS to use cloud-init, which will also enable this use-case.

As the firstrun style customisation is planned for deprecation, I'm inclined to reject this feature request on two grounds:

  1. firstrun is on the way out - and unless there are specific security or ergonomic issues affecting a wide range of users I'm not inclined to modify it
  2. cloud-init configuration is already available

That said, I could be convinced otherwise - but only if you can demonstrate a solid reason to put time into the firstrun mechanism.