[OE-core] does "wic" allow one to actually format physical devices?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Ed Bartosh wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   never used "wic" before, and i'm wondering if it has the ability
> > to not create dd-able images so much as partition and format
> > physical target devices. surely, the underlying logic would be the
> > same, i just want to work with the target hard drive and bypass
> > creating the image itself.
>
> The only purpose of wic is to create images. I'm afraid it doesn't
> have the functionality you're looking for.

  i thought that was the case, just wanted to make sure. and perhaps
i'm just missing it, but where is the canonical documentation for wic,
it might still be useful for what i'm doing.

rday

p.s. i'm assuming you can use 'wic' only in the context of an OE
build, yes? at least it appears that way.