[yocto] The role of "distro" and "image"

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 12:39:39 PST 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>> As for images, I might be able to reuse core-image-minimal - but it
>> oddly contains "${POKY_EXTRA_INSTALL}" in the IMAGE_INSTALL. Since
>> core-image-minimal.bb is defined in oe-core and POKY is a distro notion
>> of meta-yocto, this contributes to my confusion over distro vs. image.
>>
>> I'd appreciate some discussion to help me clarify where these lines
>> should be.
>
> That's just a stray variable that has yet to be properly renamed by the
> looks of it.

yes there was a patch to rename that to IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL or
COREIMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL



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