On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Paul D. DeRocco <pdero...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Where does the base name of the image files in build/tmp/deploy/images come > from? More to the point, if I create my own image recipe in my own layer, > what control do I have over the name of the resulting image files? I'd like > to be able to create more than one variant, and not have to remember which > is which based on the build times appended to the file names.
IMAGE_BASENAME variable is used to define name. by default its same as PN of image recipe. > > A related question: section 5.2.1 of the dev-manual says I can create a > custom image based on an existing image by copying that image recipe and > then modifying it. Is there some reason I can't use a .bbappend for this, > e.g., core-image-base.bbappend? you can but then its a different image. You dont have to copy you can also include the existing image recipe in your recipe and add customizations. > > -- > > Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco > Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto