From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: [PATCH 09/10] ref-manual: drop "partition" as a wic kickstart command
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:03:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922020339.481929-10-twoerner@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922020339.481929-1-twoerner@gmail.com>
The kickstart reference documents "partition" as a synonym for "part".
wic does not accept it: its parser registers only part, bootloader and
include, so a .wks line beginning "partition" fails with an
invalid-choice error.
The synonym was real while wic used a bundled pykickstart, whose command
table mapped both spellings to one handler. Replacing that with a parser
carrying only the options wic uses kept "part" alone, and the manual was
not updated to match.
AI-Generated: codex/claude-opus 5 (xhigh)
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
---
documentation/ref-manual/kickstart.rst | 9 ++++-----
documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/kickstart.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/kickstart.rst
index e7cba555a6e1..14aff6025f18 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/kickstart.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/kickstart.rst
@@ -16,14 +16,13 @@ modifications to reflect Wic capabilities. You can see the original
documentation for those commands at the following link:
https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html
-Command: part or partition
-==========================
+Command: part
+=============
-Either of these commands creates a partition on the system and uses the
+This command creates a partition on the system and uses the
following syntax::
part [mntpoint]
- partition [mntpoint]
If you do not
provide mntpoint, Wic creates a partition but does not mount it.
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ Here is an example that uses "/" as the mountpoint. The command uses
part / --source rootfs --ondisk sdb --fstype=ext3 --label platform --align 1024
Here is a list that describes other supported options you can use with
-the ``part`` and ``partition`` commands:
+the ``part`` command:
- ``--size``: The minimum partition size. Specify as an integer value
optionally followed by one of the units "k" / "K" for kibibyte,
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 66439ff26e6d..c715dbc19f50 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -4572,7 +4572,7 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
When using Wic tool, beware that a second overhead factor is also applied.
This overhead value is defined by the ``--overhead-factor`` option, which
defaults to "1.3" when omitted. See the
- :ref:`ref-manual/kickstart:command: part or partition` chapter in
+ :ref:`ref-manual/kickstart:command: part` chapter in
:doc:`/ref-manual/kickstart` for details.
:term:`IMAGE_PKGTYPE`
--
2.50.0.173.g8b6f19ccfc3a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 2:03 [PATCH 00/10] docs: editorial repairs to the examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 01/10] docs: give the root prompts a preamble Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 02/10] docs: copy only the command from a console block Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:20 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 14:40 ` Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 15:16 ` Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 03/10] docs: show a prompt on commands the reader is meant to type Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 14:23 ` Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 04/10] docs: write an elided passage as a comment Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 05/10] docs: mark the placeholders in examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 06/10] docs: remove real accounts from the examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 07/10] kernel-dev: give each example block one thing to hold Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 08/10] ref-manual: put the ARCHIVER_MODE comments on their own lines Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` Trevor Woerner [this message]
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] [PATCH 09/10] ref-manual: drop "partition" as a wic kickstart command Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 10/10] dev-manual: indent a list continuation so the code block ends Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] [PATCH 00/10] docs: editorial repairs to the examples Antonin Godard
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