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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Split do_rootfs into image specific tasks?
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On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:30 +1300, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I like this a lot. I'd idly considered this model before (as I'm sure
> others 
> had) as it simplifies a lot of the multi-format image construction
> handling, 
> improves incremental performance, and the added granularity makes it
> slightly 
> easier to see what the build system is doing. Obviously there is some
> minor 
> cleanup work to be done on the patchset as you've noted.
> 
> The only "issue" I can think of is that bitbake -c rootfs will no
> longer build 
> the image files as it did previously; however I'm not sure I'd
> structure things 
> any differently to avoid that though. I suspect people will fairly
> easily adapt 
> to this change as long as we publicise it effectively.

Thanks for the feedback. Just as a heads up for people, I posted an
updated patch set to the OE-Core list. This one has various issues
fixed (including the todos) and is ready for wider testing.

Cheers,

Richard