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

[Ed Bartosh]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:19:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.
The documentation is here:
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#creating-partitioned-images

you can get also gert some info from wic help overview|plugins|kickstart output.

> 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.
Yes, wic is tightly coupled with OE.

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Regards,
Ed