Re: Create more than one image with WIC

[Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 06:49:45PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> 
> > It's not a big deal to run wic sequentially to produce multiple images,
> > but it will create more problems than it solves I believe. It will be slower and
> > will make a mess in image naming in deploy directory.
> 
> I personally would prefer to support generating more than one wic image
> per image recipe. The different output files could be distinguished with
> an additional suffix (".efi.wic", ".live.wiC", etc.) where the suffix is
> either specified by the WKS file or the configuration where the WKS file
> is selected - the latter might be a bit more flexible.
>

From my point of view ths would be against the current design of oe
image building susbsystem. It would be also more complex and slower
unless we'll find a way to dynamically generate multiple image creation
tasks per one recipe and run them in parallel. In this case it will be
even more complex.

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Regards,
Ed