Commit 7649b282 authored by Ryan Barnett's avatar Ryan Barnett Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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manual: add information about INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS 



The Buildroot manual currently does not contain any mention of the
<pkg>_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS which could potentially be of interest when
developing a new 'generic-package'.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRyan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
CC: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
parent 45f3af23

docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt

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@@ -410,6 +410,15 @@ different steps of the build process. 
  should be installed, since they might be needed to compile other

  packages.



* +LIBFOO_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS+ lists the actions to be performed to

  install the package to the images directory, when the package is a

  target package. The package must install its files to the directory

  given by +$(BINARIES_DIR)+. Only files that are binary images (aka

  images) that do not belong in the +TARGET_DIR+ but are necessary

  for booting the board should be placed here. For example, a package

  should utilize this step if it has binaries which would be similar

  to the kernel image, bootloader or root filesystem images.



* +LIBFOO_INSTALL_INIT_SYSV+ and +LIBFOO_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD+ list the

  actions to install init scripts either for the systemV-like init systems

  (busybox, sysvinit, etc.) or for the systemd units. These commands