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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-11-16 13:55:07 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-11-25 15:24:19 +0000
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documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml: EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS added.
New glossary entry added. Reported-by: Darren Hart. (From yocto-docs rev: 03845586f7331630bd1d9b5eebb9df9eccbd05a0) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id='var-EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS'><glossterm>EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A list of recipes to be built that do not provide packages to be installed in
+ the root filesystem.
+ </para>
+ <para>Sometimes a recipe is required to build the final image but is not
+ needed in the root filesystem.
+ You can use the <filename>EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS</filename> variable to
+ list these recipes and thus, specify the dependencies.
+ A typical example is a required bootloader in a machine configuration.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ To add packages to the root filesystem, see the various
+ <filename>*DEPENDS</filename> and <filename>*RECOMMENDS</filename>
+ variables.
+ </note>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id='var-EXTRA_OECMAKE'><glossterm>EXTRA_OECMAKE</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Additional <filename>cmake</filename> options.</para>
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