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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2017-10-26 09:20:49 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-10-30 15:55:08 +0000
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ref-manual: Updates to "Image Generation" section.
Fixed wording on how the OpenEmbedded build system dynamically generates do_image_* tasks as needed during image generation. (From yocto-docs rev: 9df98d77a446cd5d27c4e87418117a904b1f4231) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-development-environment.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-development-environment.xml
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@@ -2243,15 +2243,16 @@
2243 </para> 2243 </para>
2244 2244
2245 <para> 2245 <para>
2246 The <filename>do_image</filename> task dynamically creates 2246 The OpenEmbedded build system dynamically creates
2247 other <filename>do_image_*</filename> tasks as needed, which 2247 <filename>do_image_*</filename> tasks as needed, based
2248 include compressing the root filesystem image to reduce the 2248 on the image types specified in the
2249 overall size of the image.
2250 The process turns everything into an image file or a set of
2251 image files.
2252 The formats used for the root filesystem depend on the
2253 <link linkend='var-IMAGE_FSTYPES'><filename>IMAGE_FSTYPES</filename></link> 2249 <link linkend='var-IMAGE_FSTYPES'><filename>IMAGE_FSTYPES</filename></link>
2254 variable. 2250 variable.
2251 The process turns everything into an image file or a set of
2252 image files and compresses the root filesystem image to reduce
2253 the overall size of the image.
2254 The formats used for the root filesystem depend on the
2255 <filename>IMAGE_FSTYPES</filename> variable.
2255 </para> 2256 </para>
2256 2257
2257 <para> 2258 <para>
@@ -2262,8 +2263,8 @@
2262 do_image_<replaceable>type</replaceable>[depends] 2263 do_image_<replaceable>type</replaceable>[depends]
2263 </literallayout> 2264 </literallayout>
2264 So, if the <replaceable>type</replaceable> as specified by the 2265 So, if the <replaceable>type</replaceable> as specified by the
2265 <link linkend='var-IMAGE_FSTYPES'><filename>IMAGE_FSTYPES</filename></link> 2266 <filename>IMAGE_FSTYPES</filename> were
2266 were <filename>ext4</filename>, the dynamically generated task 2267 <filename>ext4</filename>, the dynamically generated task
2267 would be as follows: 2268 would be as follows:
2268 <literallayout class='monospaced'> 2269 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
2269 do_image_ext4[depends] 2270 do_image_ext4[depends]