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| author |   Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> | 2014-08-05 16:15:30 -0500 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-08-11 10:52:17 +0100 |
| commit | dfa8626700269141f8d2f5be12c8758db7ca6473 (patch) | |
| tree | 321518c0a437af71d0c8fca5aa78b76f0ec0b43a /scripts | |
| parent | e0ec12d012e568c9943614fc1190c143912180b3 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-dfa8626700269141f8d2f5be12c8758db7ca6473.tar.gz | |
wic: Update 'Background and Motivation' help section
Remove help text regarding the source and future intentions of the wic
codebase, since the code prompting those comments has now been mostly
removed.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/lib/image/help.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/image/help.py b/scripts/lib/image/help.py index 6e8e037c50..6503aaa18d 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/image/help.py +++ b/scripts/lib/image/help.py @@ -456,24 +456,12 @@ DESCRIPTION oe-core: directdisk.bbclass and mkefidisk.sh. The difference between wic and those examples is that with wic the functionality of those scripts is implemented by a general-purpose partitioning - 'language' based on Redhat kickstart syntax (with the underlying - code borrowed from Tizen mic, which in turn was borrowed from - Meego mic, in turn borrowed from Fedora livecd, etc.). + 'language' based on Redhat kickstart syntax). The initial motivation and design considerations that lead to the current tool are described exhaustively in Yocto Bug #3847 (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3847). - Though the current wic tool only uses the kickstart syntax related - to partitioning and bootloaders and only for creating images, - because the code is based on the mic/pykickstart code, future - deployment efforts such as those partially described by Yocto Bug - #4106 (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4106), - but also others including package selection (from e.g. binary - feeds) and deployment configuration of users/network/services, - etc, could be implemented under this framework, considering that - all of those are implemented in some form by the base system. - Implementation and Examples wic can be used in two different modes, depending on how much |