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# Copyright (C) 2015 Codethink Limited
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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help: |
    A Baserock configuration extension for removing static device nodes.

    Parameters:

        STRIP_DEVICE_NODES=<1|0>: whether to strip device nodes

    This extension is a workaround for a flaw in the Baserock reference systems.
    They still contain statically created device nodes, which is not useful any
    more for Linux systems due to the existance of the 'devtmpfs' filesystem.
    The 'devtmpfs' filesystem creates device nodes automatically at run time.

    Static device nodes are deliberately not supported by the OSTree tool, so this
    .configure extension is needed to use the Baserock reference systems with the
    ostree.write deployment extension.