[oe-commits] org.oe.documentation usermanual: image and rootfs updates

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usermanual: image and rootfs updates

Author: koen at openembedded.org
Branch: org.openembedded.documentation
Revision: 8b5f0b033d07e73220729cd2bbb725f99cc5548c
ViewMTN: http://monotone.openembedded.org/revision.psp?id=8b5f0b033d07e73220729cd2bbb725f99cc5548c
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usermanual/reference/image_types.xml
usermanual/usermanual.xml
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#  from [4053ca4aeaedfbb5bf5001616562335d278fb936]
#    to [dc2307f707c91884058966c4472059d219139229]
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#  from [c3fddb24f4d471461c227605ca687c4504887697]
#    to [892ce32c6f7cc88e3bccf34dad8db0d0f3af93fc]
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--- usermanual/reference/image_types.xml	4053ca4aeaedfbb5bf5001616562335d278fb936
+++ usermanual/reference/image_types.xml	dc2307f707c91884058966c4472059d219139229
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ rmdir ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz"</scree
           <para>Creates a .tar archive.</para>
 
           <para><screen>IMAGE_CMD_tar = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} &amp;&amp; \
-  tar -jcvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.bz2 ."</screen></para>
+  tar -cvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar ."</screen></para>
 
           <para>The <command>EXTRA_IMAGECMD</command> variable in not
           supported for tar images.</para>
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--- usermanual/usermanual.xml	c3fddb24f4d471461c227605ca687c4504887697
+++ usermanual/usermanual.xml	892ce32c6f7cc88e3bccf34dad8db0d0f3af93fc
@@ -409,8 +409,8 @@ MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 apm alsa pc
     <section id="commonuse_new_distro">
       <title>Creating a new Distribution</title>
 
-      <para>Creating a new distribution is not complicated. Config need to be
-      created in /conf/distro directory. What has to be inside? <itemizedlist>
+      <para>Creating a new distribution is not complicated, however we urge you to try existing distributions first, because it's also very easy to do wrong. The config need to be
+      created in /conf/distro directory. So what has to be inside? <itemizedlist>
           <listitem>
             <para><command>DISTRO_VERSION</command> so users will know which
             version of distribution they use.</para>
@@ -510,28 +510,28 @@ SRCDATE = "20061014"
       <para>Creating own image is easy - only few variables needs to be set:
       <itemizedlist>
           <listitem>
-            <para><command>IMAGE_BASENAME</command> to give name for own
+            <para><command>IMAGE_BASENAME</command> to give a name for your own
             image</para>
           </listitem>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para><command>IPKG_INSTALL</command> to give list of packages to
-            install into image</para>
+            <para><command>PACKAGE_INSTALL</command> to give a list of packages to
+            install into the image</para>
           </listitem>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para><command>RDEPENDS</command> to give list of packages which
-            are needed to be build to create image</para>
+            <para><command>RDEPENDS</command> to give a list of recipes which
+            are needed to be built to create this image</para>
           </listitem>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para><command>IMAGE_LINGUAS</command> is optional list of
-            languages which has to be installed into image</para>
+            <para><command>IMAGE_LINGUAS</command> is an optional list of
+            languages which has to be installed into the image</para>
           </listitem>
-        </itemizedlist> Then adding of <emphasis>image_ipk</emphasis> class
+        </itemizedlist> Then adding of the <emphasis>image</emphasis> class
       use: <screen>
-inherit image_ipk
-</screen> And image recipe is ready for usage.</para>
+inherit image
+</screen> And the image recipe is ready for usage.</para>
     </section>
 
     <section id="commonuse_prebuilt_toolchain">