[oe] [PATCH] image.bbclass: reorder do_rootfs

Leon Woestenberg leon.woestenberg at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 20:52:49 UTC 2009


Hello Roman,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Roman I Khimov <khimov at altell.ru> wrote:
> Places do_rootfs function before do_install in image creation process.
>
> This change allows multiimage builds, when one image depends on another (before
> that second image creation raced with do_rootfs for the first one) and uses
> it for some purpose.
>
> Multiimage builds are useful in situations like creating an installer image
> with initramfs (built in OE) and an image of the target FS (also built in OE)
> or for building virtualized system images to be placed on target FS.
> ---

This looks *very* useful.

However, this might break stuff as it is intrusive. So HEADS UP everyone! :-)

Acked-by: Leon Woestenberg <leon at sidebranch.com>

Regards,
-- 
Leon




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