for the time being, so that people can have the basics of a rom that will flash and not error out.
this commit prevents the recovery from being included in the ota package.
unfortunately i don't know of a good way to write this out, so you just get the commit instead, it is taken directly from cyanogen's source.
it's not hard to follow ![]()
http://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_build/commit/eb79caf278d8f80144f1233eed8bd7a5b790140e