[yocto] what is "core-image-testmaster.bb" supposed to do?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  first question related to building an installer -- how is one
supposed to use the recipe core-image-testmaster.bb?

  i've already noted (i think) that it has a bug in that it uses the
old (obsolete) variable INITRD_IMAGE, whereas the old occurrences of
that were changed to either INITRD_IMAGE_VM or INITRD_IMAGE_LIVE. so
it seems pretty clear that that recipe doesn't work at the moment.

  however, if it *did* work, how would one use it? it appears that it
builds both a simple initramfs, as well as a standard image. so would
it boot to the initramfs, and use the installation tools there to
install using the content from the standard image? is that what is
supposed to be going on there? or am i misreading this?

  in any event, it doesn't appear to work, and i get the feeling it's
probably overkill for my needs, but i'm still curious as to how one
would use it.

rday

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