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Peter Korsgaard
bfaed966af Update for 2015.11-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-11-19 13:31:31 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
89b7375b0f docs/manual: fix bash export syntax in example code
To export a variable in .bashrc we shouldn't put a '$' at the
beginning of the line, and there must be a '=' between key and value.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-11 23:12:30 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
40c43ee0b7 website/news: update with release date and announcement e-mail link
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-08 14:42:46 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
e1da0eff54 Update for 2015.11-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-07 22:43:57 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
1daa4c95a4 docs/manual: fix typo in $(FOO_PKGDIR) documentation
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-05 13:30:21 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
7dcd2296b6 docs/manual: document $(FOO_PKGDIR)
In the manual, add a note that packages can use $(FOO_PKGDIR) to get the
path to the directory containg the .mk and Config.in files, if they need
it to e.g. copy files from there, like startup scripts, systemd units or
any other resource.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-05 00:01:23 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
f1856bd0f5 docs/manual: do not override BR2_EXTERNAL
Currently, we forcibly override BR2_EXTERNAL when building the manual,
so as to avoid referring to packages therein from the manual.

However, when generating the lists of packages, we limit ourselves to
scanning for packages in (Buildroot's) TOPDIR and never search in
BR2_EXTERNAL. So, we do not really need to override BR2_EXTERNAL when
generating the manual to achieve the same result.

Furthermore, we're only looking for packages that are defined in the
sub-menu "Target packages", and never anywhere else, and especially not
in the sub-menu "User-provided options".

Finally, we're soon to completely eliminate use of BR2_EXTERNAL in
Kconfig altogether, so that would no longer have any impact anyway.

So, just leave BR2_EXTERNAL alone when generating the manual.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-03 23:42:24 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
07e5641339 core/pkg-generic: allow packages to exclude files when extracting
Currently, packages that need to exclude parts of the archives when
extracting (e.g. to gain space), like gcc or toolchain-external, have to
provide custom extract commands, just for the sake of adding a bunch of
--exclude directives when calling tar.

Add a new variable that packages may set, to provide a space-separated
list of patterns to exclude.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-11-03 22:20:30 +01:00
Samuel Martin
539acb7500 Revert "manual: Add notes about GitHub and hashes"
This note is no longer needed, so remove it.

Tarballs generated by GitHub are always the same, so hashes can be
checked.

This reverts commit 9474cc2594.

[Thomas: fix other remaining references to not using hashes for
github, as noticed by Maxime Hadjinlian.]

Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-18 17:59:40 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias
3901cb5157 ccache: allow for BR2_CCACHE_DIR environment override
Allow the BR2_CCACHE_DIR .config option to be overriden by the
BR2_CCACHE_DIR env variable.
This is useful for big projects where in some cases the developers home
directory might be a NFS mount (slow) and real production builds aren't.

Update documentation accordingly as well.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo.zacarias@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-17 16:32:41 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
10f7a256a3 docs/manual: add section about size graphing
Document the new graph-size target and its possibilities.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-17 16:13:09 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
1e97b27873 ccache: support changing the output directory
When building in a different output directory than the original build,
there will currently be a lot of ccache misses because in many cases
there is some -I/... absolute path in the compilation. Ccache has an
option CCACHE_BASEDIR to substitute absolute paths with relative paths,
so they wil be the same in the hash (and in the output).

Since there are some disadvantages to this path rewriting, it is made
optional as BR2_CCACHE_USE_BASEDIR. It defaults to y because the
usefulness of ccache is severely reduced without this option.

In addition to CCACHE_BASEDIR, we also substitute away the occurences
of $(HOST_DIR) in the calculation of the compiler hash. This is done
regardless of the setting of BR2_CCACHE_USE_BASEDIR because it's
quite harmless.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-10-04 18:22:21 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
ad9c7ee554 docs/manual: document new actual source package variables
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-04 17:04:16 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
571552c468 system: clarify /dev management using devtmpfs + {mdev, eudev}
The "Dynamic using mdev" and "Dynamic using eudev" /dev management
methods are using devtmpfs, just like "Dynamic using devtmpfs only",
on top of which they add either mdev or eudev. But their names might
suggest they use mdev only or eudev only.

Clarify their descriptions by adding "devtmpfs +" to make it
unambiguous.

[Thomas: rewrap the paragraphs in the manual. It makes the diff a lot
less readable, but we actually want the result to be wrapped.]

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-04 11:23:14 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
c7ed1243a5 docs/manual: FOO_SITE must not have a trailing slash
This has been the best practice since a long time, but it was not
clearly stated in the manual. Now it is mandatory, so mention it
explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-10-02 21:12:18 +01:00
Francesco Nwokeka
59fa7b7f7c docs/manual: add useful tips on patch versioning and patch submission
Added an alternative on patch versioning (the -v option) and added a
tip on how to automatically mark a previous commit as superseded.

[Thomas: minor tweaks.]

Signed-off-by: Francesco Nwokeka <francesco.nwokeka@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-09-19 15:57:15 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
e77d6c60b9 docs: use lists.buildroot.org to refer to the mailman archives
Now that mailman handles lists.buildroot.org lets use that everywhere in the
documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-09-14 14:50:40 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
162b30bcc3 docs/manual: use bugs.buildroot.org for bugtracker
Now that we have a bugs.buildroot.org CNAME for bugzilla lets use that in
the manual as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-09-14 14:46:33 +02:00
Vicente Olivert Riera
476b674824 docs/website: add a space between attributes
Error highlighted by the W3 HTML validator:

Error: No space between attributes.
At line 71, column 64
e="width:100%;"href="/download

Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-09-07 23:53:19 +02:00
Vicente Olivert Riera
76bcbae365 docs/manual: add the "mark as superseded" hint
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-09-07 23:52:35 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
3cd209bfaf docs: website: update for 2015.08.1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-09-06 23:09:12 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
b6beb1d503 docs/website/news.html: add 2015.08 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-09-01 09:56:56 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
20a36cd877 Update for 2015.08
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-08-31 23:06:58 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
c7bd65e1d4 docs/website: remove broken symlink for top-level manual
Recently, we've tried to have the manual lie at the top-level of the
site, to get a shorter URL.

However, that is broken: we do not need only a link the the HTML, but
also to the CSS and to any resource linked from the html (images...).

The server configuration has now been updated to add a redirect, so we
no longer need that symlink anyway. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-29 10:36:15 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
dc1ba281a5 docs/manual: makedevs only accepts numerical values
Because of a limitation in how makedevs resolves names [0], usernames
and groupnames would be resolved with UIDs and GIDs from the host, not
the target.

Fixing makedevs would involve us rewriting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group
parser (not too complex, still not trivial).

Document that the user and group fields should only be numbers, not
names. Also, the manual is currently misleading, as an example indeed
uses names for the user and group fields. Fix that and expand the
explanations.

The mode field should also be numbers, not a rwx combo.

Slight typographical eye-candy about major/minor fields.

[0] it uses getpwnma(3) and getgrnam(3) to resolve names to IDs, and
those only resolve names on the host (i.e. there is no way to specify
a chroot-like feature)

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-29 10:35:28 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
551971984c docs/website: fix manual symlink
It should point to the filesystem path on the server, not the HTTP virtual path.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-08-26 22:26:55 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
0af33406a7 website: make a symlink for the manual at the root of the website
This will give us a shorter URL, that we can more easily refer to in the
documetation itself, in help texts, on IRC...

[Peter: Use buildroot.org everywhere]
Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-08-26 17:36:59 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a123e7ed8e Add link to 2015.08-rc2 announcement e-mail
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-24 23:01:11 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
985b46be0c Update for 2015.08-rc2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-24 22:20:16 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6b804f75eb docs/website: add announcement e-mail link for 2015.08-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-05 23:13:36 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7b1e9d5244 Update for 2015.08-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-05 15:50:27 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
45aaa372b0 docs/manual: document gcc version dependencies
This commit updates the Buildroot manual to document how to detail the
gcc version dependencies in Config.in comments of packages, like we do
for kernel headers version.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2015-08-05 12:11:20 +02:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
f8d281d816 docs/manual: Modify GitHub FOO_SITE explanation
GitHub has changed its layout, there is no longer any green nor grey
button, it's a link with a tiny icon that indicates if it's uploaded by
the maintainer or not.
In order to not confuse anyone, adding an image should make it clear.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lionel Orry <lionel.orry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-28 23:37:39 +02:00
Jörg Krause
61f1578503 docs/manual: add U-Boot configuration
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-19 14:47:11 +02:00
Jan Viktorin
c99a0deec7 docs/manual: Fix trivial typo
Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-14 23:56:58 +02:00
Baruch Siach
fe3f30d9a7 docs/manual: relax python version requirement
Buildroot should now work with host installed python version 3. Update the
manual accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-14 23:56:35 +02:00
Romain Naour
509a8368c3 docs/manual: add documentation for linux-ext and linux-tools.
[Thomas: misc improvements.]

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-14 23:35:58 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
7701e2bf75 docs/manual: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-13 17:08:23 +02:00
Julien Viard de Galbert
5284dcf7de Document the 72 char limit on package description.
While describing a package I though that the tab and 2 spaces was
already doing the margin for wrapping the help test (ie 70 char when
wrapping to 80) but apparently the full text need to fit 72 columns.

So this patch propose to document that fact in the two places where
the Config.in format is described.

Signed-off-by: Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.name>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-13 12:16:45 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
9e8857d05a docs/manual: add kernel-module
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-12 11:56:18 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
62803be844 docs/manual: document <PKG>_STRIP_COMPONENTS
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-12 00:51:14 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
821f30c82c docs/manual/beyond-buildroot: additional minor fixes
Those issues were noticed by Thomas De Schampheleire during the
review, but they were forgotten when applying the patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-10 19:17:02 +02:00
Noé Rubinstein
618346836e docs/manual/beyond-buildroot: building and testing live-CDs
[Thomas: reworked a bit the phrasing, plus mention that Grub 2 is
supported.]

Signed-off-by: Noé Rubinstein <nrubinstein@aldebaran.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-10 19:15:40 +02:00
Fabio Porcedda
21036a58a2 manual: cvs: document that a branch or a date can be used
Also instead of using the generic word "timestamp" use the word "tag".

Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-07-10 11:09:30 +02:00
James Knight
8d972df185 scripts/mkusers: allow users with no password value set
The following allows a user definition to specify that a created user
entry should not have a password value set. Original implementation
allowed a user definition to provide a password value of "=" (no quotes)
to generate a crypt-encoded empty string value. In some cases, it may be
desired to have no value specified for a user's password. By using a
value "-" for a password, no value will be set in the shadow value.

An example when this can be used is when logging into a terminal.
Logging into a session with an encoded empty password will prompt a user
to enter a password since it does not know the password is empty. If the
password field blank, a login session will not prompt for a password.

Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.knight@rockwellcollins.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-06-09 23:13:41 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
97f6d7dcb5 docs/website: link to the Free Electrons training materials
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-06-04 15:32:31 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
cddaae8229 Merge branch 'next'
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-06-01 23:52:57 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7919b0ec55 docs/website/news.html: add 2015.05 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-06-01 23:51:45 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
6d73615f0c Update for 2015.05
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-05-31 23:15:34 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
162290e1f3 docs/manual/br2-external: use proper .Note sections
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-05-25 22:35:10 +02:00