[yocto] dev manual explanation for "additional software" seems misleading

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Nov 10 02:26:24 PST 2013


  here:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#usingpoky-extend-customimage-custombb

one reads:

"One way to get additional software into an image is to create a
custom image. The following example shows the form for the two lines
you need:

     IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-x11-base package1 package2"

     inherit core-image

  but that's not really *adding* software to an image, is it? it's
totally redefining the contents of an image through the use of setting
IMAGE_INSTALL to *exactly* what you want the image to have, is it not?
it seems like that explanation has the potential for misunderstanding.

rday

-- 

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================



More information about the yocto mailing list