buildroot/docs/manual, branch 2017.08

core/legal-info: use hash file from version sub-dir

2017-07-29T20:34:41+00:00

When we have multiple versions for a package, and the licensing terms depend on the version actually selected (e.g. like Qt5), storing the hashes for those license files in the .hash file is broken: the infra will ensure that all hashes for a file do match, which would not be the case here. We fix that by first looking for a hash file in the version sub-dir first, and if that does not exist, then we use the main hash file. Drop the useless intermediate variable 'ret'. Update the documentation accordingly. Reported-by: Joshua Henderson Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Joshua Henderson Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Luca Ceresoli Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

package/linux-tools: change method for including linux-tool sub-makefiles

2017-07-19T19:16:38+00:00

Make inclusion ordering of all linux-tool-*.mk sub-makefiles explicit instead of relying on alphabetical sort order. This is done by renaming the Linux tools sub-makefiles to the format linux-tool-*.mk.in. This causes the top-level Makefile to ignore the Linux tools sub-makefiles. Until now, the main Makefile included all linux-tool-*.mk files, as well as linux-tools.mk, and it relied on alphabetical sorting to include them in the proper order (linux-tool-*.mk before linux-tools.mk). Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" [Thomas: improve comment in the code as suggested by Yann.] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: patches are not applied for SITE_METHOD = local

2017-07-09T15:25:48+00:00

We had several remarks on the mailing list of users that were surprised that patches were not applied for packages whose SITE_METHOD is local. So document this. Note that for OVERRIDE_SRCDIR itself it is already documented: When Buildroot finds that for a given package, an _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR has been defined, it will no longer attempt to download, extract and patch the package. Instead, it will directly use the source code available in in the specified directory. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: remove references to host/usr paths

2017-07-05T14:06:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: update gettext details

2017-07-04T23:37:38+00:00

The way gettext is handled in Buildroot has significantly changed, with changes visible to packages. This commit updates the relevant section of the manual to document how packages should now interact with the gettext support. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)

manual: add documentation about DL_DIR

2017-07-04T15:19:08+00:00

And at the same time don't encourage use of BR2_DL_DIR Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: document hashes for license files

2017-07-03T16:03:51+00:00

[Peter: use sha256 in example] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Luca Ceresoli Cc: Peter Korsgaard Cc: Rahul Bedarkar Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: update details about hashes

2017-07-02T22:05:18+00:00

This commit updates the manual about hashes, fixing a number of issues: - Adding the .hash file should no longer be optional: it *must* be added. Therefore the wording "You can add ..." is changed to "When possible, you must add ...". - We are now checking hashes for Git downloaded packages, so fix this as well, and indicate more clearly which download methods have hash checking. - We no longer want to have auto-generated patches be downloaded through _PATCH because such patches are not stable over time, and their hash can change. For example, downloading patches from github.com should no longer be done. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

manual: fix test-pkg missing.config file name

2017-07-01T22:36:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: update old references to support/scripts

2017-07-01T17:43:46+00:00

There were still some references to the old location of the scripts in the manual. Replace them by utils/. While we're at it, remove the redundant ./ at the beginning of some of the example commands. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni