We need to complete the documentation part for the https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5704 bug, which had the documentation flag set to "Yes."

Here are some comments from that bug to help start:

Laurentiu Palcu: 
This is part of the rootfs refactoring work. The new class/routine should be responsible of creating two type of manifests: an initial one, used by the rootfs creation routines to generate the rootfs and a final one, which will contain all the packages installed in the image.

Laurentiu Palcu:
Patches merged: 54 patches, starting commit:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=095bb006c3dbbfbdfa05f13d8d7b50e2a5ab2af0

Scott Rifenbark:
Hi, 

In the ref-manual where we talk about image generation (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#image-generation-dev-environment) we mention some information about creation of manifest file.  From looking at this bug fix, the changes that cause two types of manifests to be created don't really surface to the user.  We still have the one final manifest file correct? 

Also, we have a description of the IMAGE_MANIFEST variable at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-IMAGE_MANIFEST.  Is this affected?

I am thinking we don't need additional user documentation changes for this fix but I could be wrong.  Please examine these two sections and advise on any changes that the user needs to know about.

Thanks, 
Scott