Ignition scripts for SolidRun's i.MX6 based mini computers.
Those scripts are intended to be downloaded by Ignition as a gzipped tarball. For that Ignitio uses github API.
After being downloaded Ignition scans the directories and provides the user a list of distributions to install from.
Each directory is a distribution installation cookbook that provides name, description, icon and installation script.
Optionally it might provide a list to the user to choose from, and up to 4 custom checkboxes with different defaults that the user can choose from.
Following is a recommended diagram how to improve Ignition scripts -
- Fork / clone ignition-imx project
- Modify it by creating a directory with new cookbook or fix bugs
- Create a gzipped tarball of the project
- Host the tarball into a local web server
- Boot Ignition and change the repository URL to the local web server with the file URL
- Debug
- Once ready push the changes to your fork and issue a pull request
- The UI has progress indication scans the install.sh stdout/stderr and accepts a format like the following - " number%". For instance "##### 30.5%"
- Once Ignition recognizes such a pattern it updates the progress bar with the requested percentage
- When reaching 100% Ignition changes the progress bar title from "Download..." to "Installing...". It will still accept progress indication.
- Best method to provide such progress is using 'curl' with the '--progress' flag
- Bare in mind that the installation script should run on a 512MByte systems (like CuBox-i1 and HummingBoard-i1).