On Mon 2026-02-02 @ 08:54:06 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > The wic utility will continue to fall under The Yocto Project umbrella, > but will no longer be integrated into the project as part of oe-core. > The ultimate goal is to make wic a completely independent tool, hosted > on PyPI, with its own tests, development roadmap, and releases. > > Some benefits include: > - relieving the oe-core maintainers from having to review, understand, > merge, or reject wic patches > - allow the tool to be used outside of The Yocto Project for generating > Linux images > - provide more flexibility to explore other features, libraries, > mechanisms, etc > > AI-Generated: AI was used to help with the initial split of wic from oe-core > AI-Tool: codex > AI-Model: gpt-5.1-codex-max > > Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <[email protected]> > --- > scripts/lib/wic/__init__.py | 10 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc | 3 - > .../directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg | 27 - > .../directdisk-bootloader-config.wks | 8 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-gpt.wks | 10 - > .../canned-wks/directdisk-multi-rootfs.wks | 23 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk.wks | 8 - > .../lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-bootdisk.wks.in | 3 - > .../wic/canned-wks/efi-uki-bootdisk.wks.in | 3 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/mkefidisk.wks | 11 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/mkhybridiso.wks | 7 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemuloongarch.wks | 3 - > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemuriscv.wks | 3 - > .../lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks | 8 - > .../lib/wic/canned-wks/sdimage-bootpart.wks | 6 - > .../lib/wic/canned-wks/systemd-bootdisk.wks | 11 - > scripts/lib/wic/engine.py | 681 ---------- > scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py | 583 -------- > scripts/lib/wic/help.py | 1188 ----------------- > scripts/lib/wic/ksparser.py | 322 ----- > scripts/lib/wic/misc.py | 266 ---- > scripts/lib/wic/partition.py | 562 -------- > scripts/lib/wic/pluginbase.py | 144 -- > scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py | 710 ---------- > .../wic/plugins/source/bootimg_biosplusefi.py | 213 --- > scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg_efi.py | 435 ------ > .../wic/plugins/source/bootimg_partition.py | 162 --- > .../lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg_pcbios.py | 483 ------- > scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/empty.py | 89 -- > .../lib/wic/plugins/source/extra_partition.py | 134 -- > .../wic/plugins/source/isoimage_isohybrid.py | 463 ------- > scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py | 115 -- > scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rootfs.py | 236 ---- > scripts/wic | 600 --------- > 34 files changed, 7530 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/__init__.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc > delete mode 100644 > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg > delete mode 100644 > scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-gpt.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-multi-rootfs.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-bootdisk.wks.in > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/efi-uki-bootdisk.wks.in > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/mkefidisk.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/mkhybridiso.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemuloongarch.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemuriscv.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/sdimage-bootpart.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/systemd-bootdisk.wks > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/engine.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/help.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/ksparser.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/misc.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/partition.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/pluginbase.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg_biosplusefi.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg_efi.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg_partition.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg_pcbios.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/empty.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/extra_partition.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage_isohybrid.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py > delete mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rootfs.py > delete mode 100755 scripts/wic
This set of patches is being sent to the mailing list to give others an idea of the work being done to split wic out into its own independent project. It is an RFC patch set. If the day comes when they might be applied, they will need to be squashed. Otherwise any future bisection that lands in the middle of these patches will likely cause build failures. This RFC patch set was created to make review easier. Each patch is quite small and does one thing.
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