[oe] multiple DISTRO's in tmp

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:39:21AM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> I bumped upon the following issue.
> 
> Normally I use angstrom as distro, but this time I needed a small
> image to be used in an initramfs.
> In order to achieve that I changed DISTRO in my local.conf to minimal
> (tried minimal-uclibc first, but that would complain before generating
> packages, probably due to a mismatch between my target (powerpc) and
> uclibc (I refrained from sidetracking to dig into it)).
> 
minimal being an Angstrom clone will not actually produce smaller
images. I would suggest for an initramfs you just switch Angstrom
to uclibc mode.

The only real advantage micro has in size is that it creates less
directories. The images are not as far as I can see physically any
smaller.

Graeme