Building a chrooted system with OpenEmbedded

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Aurélien Gâteau
> <aurelien.gateau at openwide.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am in the process of building a chrooted system with OpenEmbedded: the
>> device I target already runs an embedded linux distributions, but for
>> various reasons I need to install a chrooted system inside it.
> 
> fair enough... We do it in Mamona as well...
> 
>> I would like to avoid building things I do not need, such as the kernel, but
>> I can't find a way to disable it. Is it possible to avoid building the
>> kernel?
> 
> Yes, it is. ASSUME_PROVIDED += "linux virtual/kernel"

Ohhh... too bad I just created custom versions of task-boot and 
task-base to not depend on the kernel... Thank you for your answer 
anyway, I will have a look at it if time permit.

Aurélien