buildroot/docs/manual, branch 2017.11

Revert "pkg-download: remove explicit PKG_VERSION from github helper"

2017-11-14T12:55:39+00:00

This reverts commit 1e5a8916b2ab4c9c99548fa6fbd4855eee323881. The idea was that the version string can be derived because we know the package name. However, this patch does not account for the fact that $(pkgname) always points to the latest pacakge scanned, which in all other situation we're using it, is the current package, because it is used inside one ot he xxx-inner macros that are $(eval)ualed. So $(pkgname) is evaluated "early" and gets the expected value. However, the github value is not in one of those macros, so it gets evaluated "late", when doing the actual download. So, by that time, $(pkgname) will expand to the last package scanned, which is actuall the manual (without a br2-external tree). That would require that the _SITE variable be assigned with the := assignment operator. This is weird, because that would make it the only variable to require that, but only when using the github helper, which is even less obvious and would cause a lot of trouble... The obvious fixup would seem to be to use $(PKG) instead, because that already contains the upper-case package name that vcan be used as a prefix to variables. However, that does not work either, because we have a check that forbids a trsailing slash in _SITE, check that is done in pacakge/pkg-generic, inside the xxx-inner macro, during the $(eval) call. And at that time, PKG is not yet defined, because it is only defined for an actual recipe. So we can't seem to have a workable solution. So, just revert the patch. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Marcin Nowakowski Cc: Peter Korsgaard Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

Manual: DEVELOPERS file integrity check

2017-11-08T12:20:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs: update DEVELOPERS modification process

2017-11-05T20:13:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Joseph Kogut Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

manual: clarify license file hash check during legal-info target

2017-10-17T21:36:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: fix BR2_EXTERNAL path typo

2017-10-15T13:47:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Cam Hutchison Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs: clarify _PATCH behaviour

2017-09-24T12:43:37+00:00

Reiterate once more that _PATCH variable can point to an arbitrary URL, not just to a path relative to _SITE. While we're at it, also explain that the patch should be added to the .hash file. Signed-off-by: Alexander Mukhin [Arnout: add sentence about .hash file.] Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)

pkg-download: remove explicit PKG_VERSION from github helper

2017-09-24T11:11:55+00:00

Currently it is always required to add package version as an argument to the github helper. Since the version is always defined as PKG_VERSION, drop this argument and generate it automatically inside the helper routine. The github helper function is extended to support both 2 and 3 argument variants (ie. either use the provided package version argument or automatically substitute with PKG_VERSION if not available), which can make the transition of the package files easier as well allows using the 3-argument variant outside of package definitions. Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)

docs/manual: fix typo

2017-09-19T12:03:47+00:00

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: add appendix about $(HOST_DIR)/usr

2017-09-06T20:13:40+00:00

Reported-by: Adam Duskett Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Adam Duskett Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: add appendix about migration from older versions

2017-09-06T20:13:17+00:00

... and move the br2-external migration to it. Reported-by: Adam Duskett Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Adam Duskett Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni