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| author | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> | 2019-12-11 17:21:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> | 2019-12-11 17:22:55 +0100 |
| commit | f0cdd689c8861176904a78e727869f3018588482 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d37f384ac3040c157190418fb4cac803fbfa676 | |
| parent | 3e8233b486150d61b61beb4062a21c4395bdbd22 (diff) | |
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build system internals: Explain where the binaries are installed
This improves clarity as in the GNU/Linux case we can
create images by extracting the packages content, whereas
in Android the build output ends up in a directory that is
then used to build the image.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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diff --git a/full-description.md b/full-description.md index 28daeed..d7f965e 100644 --- a/full-description.md +++ b/full-description.md @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ For instance, it is possible to create OpenWRT images lacking a package manager. In the AOSP build system, there is no package manager being used to build the system components. Instead, most software components are built from git repositories and bundled into a single image that includes the majority of the -distribution. +distribution. The output of the build ends up in a directory that is then used +to create the distribution image that are to be installed on a device. Besides the core components of AOSP, community distributions tend to use several external projects like Mesa and the Linux kernel. These must usually be |