From: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: dev manual section on "customizing images" needs serious adjustment
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:42:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5037A0D5.5050508@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5035E629.5010109@r-finger.com>
On 08/23/2012 01:13 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22/08/12 21:37, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> One way to get additional software into an image is to create a
>> custom image.
>
> The manual should make it clear that this is *the* canonical way to add
> software to your images. Modifications to local.conf are temporary
> tweaks for testing/debugging (i.e., you should never feel the need to
> commit your local.conf to some project version control system).
>
> Tomas
+1. If you add additional packages to core-image-minimal in your
local.conf, you're no longer really building core-image-minimal.
Scott
--
Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-24 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 20:37 dev manual section on "customizing images" needs serious adjustment Robert P. J. Day
2012-08-23 8:13 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-08-24 15:42 ` Scott Garman [this message]
2012-08-24 15:45 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-08-24 16:30 ` Tomas Frydrych
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