[oe] Generating slightly different images for different IMAGE_FSTYPES

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:54 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia piątek, 26 lutego 2010 o 17:39:16 Martin Jansa napisał(a):
> 
> > We're slowly stripping packages not really needed, but it would be
> > nice to remove whole /boot with kernel-image.
> 
> > Is there better way to solve it or should we try harder to save space
> >  somewhere else?
> 
> Learn about ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND variable present in 
> classes/rootfs_*.bbclass files. You can use it to launch your function after 
> rootfs is populated.
> 
> So for example your shr-lite-image has drop_kernel_from_boot function in which 
> you check "MACHINE==om-gta01" and if it is then "rm -rf /boot/uImage". After 
> your function all normal ext2/ubifs/jffs2/tarball images will be created 
> without kernel in them.

Or (as there's a number of ways to do this):
PACKAGE_REMOVE = "kernel-image-*"
ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND_om-gta01 += "opkg-cl ${IPKG_ARGS}
-force-depends \
                                remove ${PACKAGE_REMOVE};"

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Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation