[Buildroot] [PATCH for-2012.11 2/4] manual: more warnings to not use output/target
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
arnout at mind.be
Tue Nov 27 08:30:11 UTC 2012
From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout at mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
---
.topdeps | 2 +-
.topmsg | 16 +---------------
docs/manual/using.txt | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.topdeps b/.topdeps
index 1f7391f..d46ee1c 100644
--- a/.topdeps
+++ b/.topdeps
@@ -1 +1 @@
-master
+t/manual
diff --git a/.topmsg b/.topmsg
index f070122..367c0df 100644
--- a/.topmsg
+++ b/.topmsg
@@ -1,18 +1,4 @@
From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
-Subject: [PATCH] manual: various fixes
-
-Various minor linguistic fixes and consistency and correctness
-improvements.
-
-Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant.
+Subject: [PATCH] manual: more warnings to not use output/target
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
----
-Since you need a lot of context to review documentation, I increased the
-context to 5 lines.
-
-I originally planned to include only trivial fixes, but there turn
-out to be a few more invasive changes. If necessary, I can split the
-patch into trivial and potentially-controversial. I haven't done that
-yet because I wanted to get this patch out ASAP for the 2012.11 release.
-Unless I get some ACKs earlier, I'll split the patch tomorrow.
diff --git a/docs/manual/using.txt b/docs/manual/using.txt
index 6e144d0..857aa33 100644
--- a/docs/manual/using.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/using.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ This directory contains several subdirectories:
* +target/+ which contains 'almost' the complete root filesystem for
the target: everything needed is present except the device files in
+/dev/+ (Buildroot can't create them because Buildroot doesn't run
- as root and doesn't want to run as root). Therefore, this directory
+ as root and doesn't want to run as root). Also, it doesn't have the correct
+ permissions (e.g. setuid for the busybox binary). Therefore, this directory
*should not be used on your target*. Instead, you should use one of
the images built in the +images/+ directory. If you need an
extracted image of the root filesystem for booting over NFS, then
--
1.7.10.4
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