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diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/help.py b/scripts/lib/wic/help.py index 4d342fcf05..bd3a2b97df 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/wic/help.py +++ b/scripts/lib/wic/help.py @@ -536,7 +536,8 @@ DESCRIPTION Source plugins can also be implemented and added by external layers - any plugins found in a scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/ - directory in an external layer will also be made available. + or lib/wic/plugins/source/ directory in an external layer will + also be made available. When the wic implementation needs to invoke a partition-specific implementation, it looks for the plugin that has the same name as @@ -970,14 +971,24 @@ DESCRIPTION has an effect with the rootfs source plugin. --include-path: This option is specific to wic. It adds the contents - of the given path to the resulting image. The path is - relative to the directory in which wic is running not - the rootfs itself so use of an absolute path is - recommended. This option is most useful when multiple - copies of the rootfs are added to an image and it is - required to add extra content to only one of these - copies. This option only has an effect with the rootfs - source plugin. + of the given path or a rootfs to the resulting image. + The option contains two fields, the origin and the + destination. When the origin is a rootfs, it follows + the same logic as the rootfs-dir argument and the + permissions and owners are kept. When the origin is a + path, it is relative to the directory in which wic is + running not the rootfs itself so use of an absolute + path is recommended, and the owner and group is set to + root:root. If no destination is given it is + automatically set to the root of the rootfs. This + option only has an effect with the rootfs source + plugin. + + --change-directory: This option is specific to wic. It changes to the + given directory before copying the files. This + option is useful when we want to split a rootfs in + multiple partitions and we want to keep the right + permissions and usernames in all the partitions. --extra-space: This option is specific to wic. It adds extra space after the space filled by the content |