[yocto] "unused"/uninstalled tools in yocto-kernel-tools?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   continuing my voyage of discovery through the various yocto kernel
> tools, and i see the Makefile which lists the kern_tools:
>
> kern_tools_LIST = kgit kgit-init kgit-meta \
>                   kgit-checkpoint kgit-clean \
>                   kconf_check configme \
>                   createme updateme patchme get_defconfig scc \
>                   pre_config merge_config.sh spp kgit-s2q
>
> but i also notice that there are a few utilities in the tools/
> directory not in that list:
>
>  * kgit-config-cleaner
>  * kgit-feature
>  * kgit-publish
>  * kgit-scc
>
> how do those utilities come into play? nothing else in that directory
> seems to refer to them. how and where are they used?

They are used during the creation / generation of a tree from scratch. Which
isn't part of the build process.

Cheers,

Bruce

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