[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] manual: add a make target 'manual-update-lists'

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 20 08:25:40 UTC 2013


Dear Samuel Martin,

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:52:11 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:

> > I'm not sure to understand the problem with the dates. I'd say you
> > shouldn't put the date specifically in the list of packages. I would
> > expect "make manual-pdf" to generate the list of packages with your
> > script, get it included into the manual sources, and get the manual
> > built.
> >
> > Separately, we may want to introduce something at the beginning of the
> > manual that says at which date the manual was built, and on which Git
> > version of the Buildroot sources. But I don't see a reason to make this
> > related to the list of packages specifically.
> Just to be sure, here, you mean something like a non-versioned version.txt file,
> which would be automatically generated and included in manual.txt?

Yes, something like that.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com


More information about the buildroot mailing list