[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/9 v4] docs/manual: document the br2-external NAME

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Sep 6 20:58:35 UTC 2016


Julien, All,

On 2016-09-06 10:21 +0000, Julien CORJON spake thusly:
> Le 05/09/2016 à 23:49, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> > Update the manual with the new external.desc mandatory file.
> >
> > Take the opportunity to add a section listing all mandatory files,
> > Config.in, external.mk and the new external.desc, instead of just
> > hinting about them in the external package recipes section.
> >
> > Change the examples to use the NAME-suffixed variable instead of the
> > raw BR2_EXTERNAL variable. Even though it is still possible to write
> > a br2-external tree that has no NAME (ie.e. won't be multi-aware), we
> > only document it with an NAME.
> 
> Is it really possible to have an br2-external tree that has no NAME from 
> here? Or, as you said in the series resume it's not possible anymore?

Damn, I somehow did something (aborted rebase somewhere?) becasue I was
sure I did ammend that commit log...

No, it's no longer possible.

I'll fix the commit log (for good this time, I hope!).

Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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