[yocto] dev manual section on "customizing images" needs serious adjustment

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Scott Garman wrote:

> On 08/23/2012 01:13 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 22/08/12 21:37, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > One way to get additional software into an image is to create a
> > > custom image.
> >
> > The manual should make it clear that this is *the* canonical way to add
> > software to your images. Modifications to local.conf are temporary
> > tweaks for testing/debugging (i.e., you should never feel the need to
> > commit your local.conf to some project version control system).
> >
> > Tomas
>
> +1. If you add additional packages to core-image-minimal in your local.conf,
> you're no longer really building core-image-minimal.

  sure.  but if you similarly explicitly set IMAGE_INSTALL before
inheriting core-image, you're not really "inheriting" core-image
either. :-)

rday

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