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authorThomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>2014-05-02 07:47:30 +0200
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>2014-05-02 10:27:59 +0200
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manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)
Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles (title prefixed with a specific number of = signs). The two-line title underlines are: Level 0 (top level): ====================== Level 1: ---------------------- Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ and the one-line title prefixes: = Document Title (level 0) = == Section title (level 1) == === Section title (level 2) === ==== Section title (level 3) ==== ===== Section title (level 4) ===== The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has multiple disadvantages: - asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move all sections one level down. - it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+) corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy. This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual. The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal code blocks. This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some titles and their content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import mmap import re for input in sys.argv[1:]: f = open(input, 'r+') f.flush() s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) # Level 0 (top level): ====================== = # Level 1: ---------------------- == # Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ === # Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ==== # Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ ===== def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement): pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE) return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s) new = s new = replace_title(new, '=', '=') new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====') new = replace_title(new, '^', '====') new = replace_title(new, '~', '===') #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==') s.seek(0) s.write(new) s.resize(s.tell()) s.close() f.close() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
[[patch-policy]]
-Patching a package
-------------------
+== Patching a package
While integrating a new package or updating an existing one, it may be
necessary to patch the source of the software to get it cross-built within
@@ -15,11 +14,9 @@ the builds. It supports three ways of applying patch sets: downloaded patches,
patches supplied within buildroot and patches located in a user-defined
global patch directory.
-Providing patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=== Providing patches
-Downloaded
-^^^^^^^^^^
+==== Downloaded
If it is necessary to apply a patch that is available for download, then add it
to the +<packagename>_PATCH+ variable. It is downloaded from the same site
@@ -28,8 +25,7 @@ patch series.
This method is typically used for packages from Debian.
-Within Buildroot
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+==== Within Buildroot
Most patches are provided within Buildroot, in the package
directory; these typically aim to fix cross-compilation, libc support,
@@ -46,8 +42,7 @@ application order.
reference in their filename.
- The field +<number>+ in the patch file name refers to the 'apply order'.
-Global patch directory
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+==== Global patch directory
The +BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR+ configuration file option can be
used to specify a space separated list of one or more directories
@@ -55,8 +50,7 @@ containing global package patches. See xref:packages-custom[] for
details.
[[patch-apply-order]]
-How patches are applied
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=== How patches are applied
. Run the +<packagename>_PRE_PATCH_HOOKS+ commands if defined;
@@ -87,8 +81,7 @@ How patches are applied
If something goes wrong in the steps _3_ or _4_, then the build fails.
-Format and licensing of the package patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=== Format and licensing of the package patches
Patches are released under the same license as the software that is
modified.
@@ -130,8 +123,7 @@ AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
+AM_CONDITIONAL([CXX_WORKS], [test "x$rw_cv_prog_cxx_works" = "xyes"])
---------------
-Integrating patches found on the Web
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=== Integrating patches found on the Web
When integrating a patch of which you are not the author, you have to
add a few things in the header of the patch itself.
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