Creating mender artifacts with multiple files in data?

DanWright · March 4, 2019, 10:45pm

It appears that the mender artifact format as shown here:

mendersoftware/mender-artifact/blob/master/Documentation/artifact-format-v1.md

Mender artifact file format
===========================

File extension: `.mender`

The tree below describes the layout of files inside the main file, which is
hosted inside a standard tar archive.

Note that there are some restrictions on ordering of the files, described
in the "Ordering" section.


### version 1

```
-artifact.mender (tar format)
  |
  +---version
  |
  +---header.tar.gz (tar format)

This file has been truncated. show original

does admit multiple files in the data section. However it does not appear that the mender-artifact tool permits specifying multiple files to be added to the data.

Does the mender-artifact tool permit specifying multiple data files somehow or does the user need to create his own means of generating artifacts if this capability is needed?

kacf · March 5, 2019, 7:24am

I doesn’t at the moment, but it will permit it soon, together with the
upcoming update modules in Mender 2.0.0. I can’t give an exact date, but
the beta is right around the corner!

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Creating mender artifacts with multiple files in data?

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