aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/documentation
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2016-01-19 16:11:46 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-01-29 17:04:47 +0000
commitd7481ceb9e98222a634ede8751110fe9cacb8536 (patch)
tree5aefda3528293c8aa796f02c2e4cea269fa2e1b7 /documentation
parentd39e9d1451c316083aee809fee22c539d4b8869d (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-d7481ceb9e98222a634ede8751110fe9cacb8536.tar.gz
ref-manual: Added do_image and do_image_complete tasks
(From yocto-docs rev: 7b6eb076adc24a6f290e73db93aa831f982817b3) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml54
1 files changed, 54 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
index c7f6a2e01a..8ac37a0d53 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-tasks.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,60 @@
</para>
</section>
+ <section id='ref-tasks-image'>
+ <title><filename>do_image</filename></title>
+
+ <para>
+ Starts the image generation process.
+ The <filename>do_image</filename> task runs after the
+ OpenEmbedded build system has run the
+ <link linkend='ref-tasks-rootfs'><filename>do_rootfs</filename></link>
+ task during which packages are identified for installation into
+ the image and the root filesystem is created, complete with
+ post-processing.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <filename>do_image</filename> task performs pre-processing
+ on the image through the
+ <link linkend='var-IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND'><filename>IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND</filename></link>
+ and dynamically generates supporting
+ <filename>do_image_*</filename> tasks as needed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For more information on image creation, see the
+ "<link linkend='image-generation-dev-environment'>Image Generation</link>"
+ section.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id='ref-tasks-image-complete'>
+ <title><filename>do_image_complete</filename></title>
+
+ <para>
+ Completes the image generation process.
+ The <filename>do_image_complete</filename> task runs after the
+ OpenEmbedded build system has run the
+ <link linkend='ref-tasks-rootfs'><filename>do_image</filename></link>
+ task during which image pre-processing occurs and through
+ dynamically generated <filename>do_image_*</filename> tasks the
+ image is constructed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <filename>do_image_complete</filename> task performs
+ post-processing on the image through the
+ <link linkend='var-IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND'><filename>IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND</filename></link>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For more information on image creation, see the
+ "<link linkend='image-generation-dev-environment'>Image Generation</link>"
+ section.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id='ref-tasks-install'>
<title><filename>do_install</filename></title>