On 12/21/2011 10:15 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2011 10:31:52 Philip Balister wrote: >> I can see people taking an existing image, adding a few packages to >> customize it for their application, and changing the splash image to a >> product specific one. > > I'm not entirely convinced this workflow makes sense when you're interested > in > getting reproducible product images. This is basically the "take some > existing > distro and hack it up until it fits" approach which taken past a certain > point > leads to an unmaintainable mess, or at the very least regressions. > > People really ought to be able to produce their final images from the > metadata > with no additional post-build changes (or at least none that are manual). If > that's too difficult, that's the problem I think is most worthwhile to > attack, > even if it requires more work on our part.
Well, I can see people wanting to do this. It falls into the case of the customer is always right, even when he is wrong :) Philip _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
