Re: [ECOS] About .ecm files

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 06:06, surya prakash wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> >
> > minus any package additions removal... which has bitten me a couple of
> > times...
> >
> > not sure if still applies.. but I used to make a .ecc file with packages
> > from the default system removed, and the .ecm would reflect it but
> > importing said .ecm file would never change the packages ...
> 
> I am sure that when we add a new target to ecos.db and build the configuration,
> these changes are NOT reflected in .ecm files. Only the .ecc file is being
> generated accordingly.
> 

The .ecm files contain "minimal configuration".  This means only the 
information which is required to recreate a given configuration.  The 
".ecc" files (generated as part of creating a configuration) contain the
complete set of configuration information.

One way to think about this is that the .ecm file has only the "actions"
specified by a user to create a configuration.  The .ecc file contains 
the whole of the configuration.

For a given package configuration database (ecos.db) and templates, a
.ecm file is sufficient to recreate any .ecc file, but much smaller 
(orders of magnitude).

> 
> > I had to
> > ship the customer the .ecc also..
> >
> > twas a while ago and I've no idea if I can reproduce it at the moment
> > :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >         Dave.
> >
> >  In this context, they are supplied to give you a "potted"
> > > configuration to build redboot for various startups.
> >
> > >
> > > They're not a required part of the port as such - you can just set the
> > > options yourself in the configuration - but they are included so that other
> > > people can build redboot without having to know the details of exactly what
> > > options to set or packages to add.
> > >
> > > Jifl
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