[Buildroot] How to figure out what a package is?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 18:12:15 UTC 2009


On 2009-11-06, H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys at visionengravers.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 06, 2009 10:35 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> This sounds a bit stupid, but where do you find a description
>> of what a given package is?
>> 
>> I've got a list of packages supported by buildroot.
>> 
>> How do I know what, for example, the package named "lite" is?
>> 
>> Googling for the name has proven pointless...
>
> Look at the help for the package...

And the help for a package is located...

[drumroll]

in the Config.in file that's in each of the package directories.

For my "lite" example, it's package/lite/Config.in

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