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). _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
