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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2014-03-20 08:38:01 -0600
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-25 12:29:44 +0000
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ref-manual, mega-manual: Added manifest file information
Fixes [YOCTO #5410] I updated the figure that shows what do_rootfs does to create the image. The new addition is the creation of the .manifest file that lists out package information in the image. Supporting text was also added in the section. The updated figure was needed in both the ref-manual and mega-manual figures folders. Also, part of the fix included a new variable description for the IMAGE_MANIFEST variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 770448e0e8ce2e2c517ced5e71f5a916fefe5cf2) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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971 </para> 971 </para>
972 972
973 <para> 973 <para>
974 Along with writing out the root filesystem image, the
975 <filename>do_rootfs</filename> task creates a manifest file
976 (<filename>.manifest</filename>) in the same directory as
977 the root filesystem image that lists out, line-by-line, the
978 installed packages.
979 This manifest file is useful for the
980 <link linkend='ref-classes-testimage'><filename>testimage</filename></link>
981 class, for example, to determine whether or not to run
982 specific tests.
983 See the
984 <link linkend='var-IMAGE_MANIFEST'><filename>IMAGE_MANIFEST</filename></link>
985 variable for additional information.
986 </para>
987
988 <para>
974 Part of the image generation process includes compressing the 989 Part of the image generation process includes compressing the
975 root filesystem image. 990 root filesystem image.
976 Compression is accomplished through several optimization 991 Compression is accomplished through several optimization