> -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:twoer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 1:28 PM > To: Sean Liming > Cc: Venkata ramana gollamudi; yocto@yoctoproject.org; Sanil kumar > Subject: Re: [yocto] RFC: Post build configuration > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Sean Liming <sean.lim...@annabooks.com> > wrote: > > Why post-build instead of pre-build? > > The idea is that you have one build, and you are manufacturing 5000 devices. > > So you take this one build and load it on each of your identical devices which > you then sell to your customers. But if each device you sell is supposed to > have a unique piece of configuration information, you don't want to have to > create 5000 builds, one for each device, do you? In other words, this unique > data shouldn't be part of the build, you wouldn't want to have to start a new > build just because you want to change this unique data? > > Ideally you would create one build. Then, just before loading this build onto a > given device, you do something to set this unique piece of information (i.e. > post-build) for this one device, then you repeat for the remaining 4999 > devices. > > The assumption here is that builds are "expensive" (i.e. slow) while post- > build configuration would be "cheap" (i.e. quick, easy, fast).
Excellent. That makes a lot of sense. Is this post-build utility an active project for the Yocto Project or is it just getting started? Is it a menu driven item / something that we can include via a layer? Regards, Sean Liming _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto