[OE-core] [PATCH v4 0/4] image creation improvements

[Ed Bartosh]

Hi,

This patchset contains various improvements for the image creation functionality
made by Patchick Ohly during his work on bug #9076:
 - fixed dependency calculation for conversion chaining
 - renamed COMPRESSION variables to CONVERSION as the term "compression" is no longer accurate
 - prioritized specialized image creation methods over using conversion chaining
 - support converting masked types

The changes look reasonable to me. However, it would be good to hear other
people opinions as some changes are quite complex.

Changes in v2: rebased on top of master-next
               returned image_getdepends back to image_types.bbclass
Changes in v3: rebased on top of recent master
Changes in v4: rebased on top of recent master

The following changes since commit 039f47ad197a9a53109c9f3deadd9c35e62c056d:

  uclibc: remove meta-yocto-bsp append (2016-07-26 08:56:32 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib ed/oe-core/image-type-9076
  http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ed/oe-core/image-type-9076

Patrick Ohly (4):
  image.bbclass: fix dependency calculation when using conversion chaining
  image creation: support converting masked types
  image.bbclass: rename COMPRESS(ION) to CONVERSION
  image.bbclass: prefer specialized image creation methods over chaining

 meta/classes/image-live.bbclass                    |   2 +-
 meta/classes/image-vm.bbclass                      |  33 +----
 meta/classes/image.bbclass                         | 119 +++++++++++-------
 meta/classes/image_types.bbclass                   | 140 ++++++++++++++-------
 meta/classes/image_types_uboot.bbclass             |  18 +--
 meta/conf/documentation.conf                       |   1 -
 .../images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb         |   6 +-
 7 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)

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