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* docs/manual: add appendix about migration from older versionsYann E. MORIN2017-09-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | ... and move the br2-external migration to it. Reported-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* docs/manual: add appendix to convert old br2-external treesYann E. MORIN2016-10-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr> Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com> [Peter: slightly reword] Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual: get rid of the lists of packagesYann E. MORIN2016-09-191-37/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We currently have four lists of packages in the manual: - the non-virtual target packages, - the virtual target packages, - the host packages, - the deprecated features. Those list take more than half of the manual. They do not serve much purpose except to show off. After the recent discussion on the list [0], remove them all. We can now get rid of our biggish and complex generating script (and its companion library kconfiglib). [0] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-September/171199.html Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: high-level restructuringThomas De Schampheleire2014-08-171-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction between general usage and developer information is not always clear. This patch restructures the manual into four large parts: - getting started - user guide - developer guide - appendix Except for the names of these parts, the section names are not yet changed. Content-wise there are no changes yet either. This will be handled in subsequent patches. In order to achieve the introduction of a new level 'parts' above 'chapters', the section indicators (=, ==, ===, ...) of several sections have to be moved one level down. Additionally, the leveloffset indication to asciidoc has to be removed. Finally, to maintain more or less the same level of detail in the table of contents, the toc.section.depth attribute is reduced as well. Note that for some sections, less detail is visible now. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* docs/manual: add the virtual packages listYann E. MORIN2014-06-081-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the list of virtual packages as an appendix to the manual. Also reference this list from appropriate locations elsewhere in the manual: - in section 7.2.2. "Config.in file", after the existing explanations on dependencies on target and toolchain options, on a linux kernel, and on udev /dev management, - in section 7.2.10. "Infrastructure for virtual packages", in the provider Config.in and .mk explanations, to have the list of existing symbols to select (in Config.in) and packages to provide (in .mk). Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)Thomas De Schampheleire2014-05-021-8/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* manual: clarify handling of deprecated featuresThomas De Schampheleire2014-01-211-1/+7
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual: rename section name of package listsThomas De Schampheleire2013-10-141-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | The original titles did no longer correspond with the actual menu names. Additionally, choose a name that better reflects the fact that this is a list. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual: add a make target 'manual-update-lists'Samuel Martin2013-05-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | The generated lists are automatically updated when building the manual. [Peter: fix typos] Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> [yann.morin.1998@free.fr: indentation, remove temp dir, intro to host utils] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: cleanup appendix.txtSamuel Martin2013-05-041-9/+20
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> [yann.morin.1998@free.fr: one more stuff->feature fixup] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* packages: add ability for packages to create usersYann E. MORIN2013-04-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Packages that install daemons may need those daemons to run as a non-root, or an otherwise non-system (eg. 'daemon'), user. Add infrastructure for packages to create users, by declaring the FOO_USERS variable that contain a makedev-syntax-like description of the user(s) to add. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Cc: Cam Hutchison <camh@xdna.net> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: cleanup and update editor tagsSamuel Martin2013-02-171-0/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: add pkg-list.txt (generated list of available packages)Samuel Martin2012-11-151-0/+13
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: rework the whole documentation stubSamuel Martin2012-11-151-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new skeleton of the manual as it has been thought: 1. About Buildroot: Presentation of Buildroot 2. Starting up: Everything to quickly and easily start working with Buildroot 3. Working with Buildroot Basics to make your work fitting your needs 4. Troubleshooting 5. Going further in Buildroot's innards Explaination of how buildroot is organised, how it works, etc 6. Developer Guidelines 7. Getting involved 8. Contibuting to Buildroot 9. Legal notice 10. Appendix It is easy to distinguish two parts in this plan: - Sections 1 to 4 mainly address people starting with Buildroot - Sections 5 to 10 are more focused on how to develop Buildroot itself Most of the existing sections have just been moved in the hierarchy, few were split and dispatch in, what i think was the relevant section, and numerous others have been created. Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* Add documentation for makedevMaxime Ripard2012-02-191-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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