[Buildroot] [PATCH] package: add comment about ipkg/opkg/rpm
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Aug 23 09:47:50 UTC 2015
Arnout, All,
On 2015-08-23 00:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 08/20/2015 05:51 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Too often the question is raised, that ipkg, opkg and rpm do not work,
> > and users complain they can not install packages.
> >
> > Even though we do have a clear and clearly explained section in our
> > manual, people do not read it (when will users read manuals? sigh...).
> >
> > So, add a big fat comment about ipkg/opkg/rpm, that Buildroot does not
> > generate binary packages and does not provide any package database for
> > any of those package manager.
>
> Great plan!
>
> And guess what: not a single spelling mistake! Congrats, Yann!
Well, it's usually not spelling mistakes, but keyboard-dislexia. ;-]
[--SNIP--]
> > diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
> > index 47d14d7..c32c989 100644
> > --- a/package/Config.in
> > +++ b/package/Config.in
> > @@ -1371,6 +1371,19 @@ endif
> > endmenu
> >
> > menu "Package managers"
> > +comment "------------------------------------------------------------------------"
> > +comment "Please note: "
> > +comment "- Buildroot does *not* generate binary packages, "
> > +comment "- Buildroot does *not* install any package database. "
> > +# First space is U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE), otherwise kconfig eats
> > +# up all spaces:
> > +comment " "
>
> Nice trick, however:
> - it requires a UTF-8 terminal;
> - it breaks completely in nconfig;
> - in menuconfig, the final *** gets shifted by one space when I tried.
OK. Bad idea...
> So I'd stick to the *
Ack.
> > +comment "It is up to you to provide those by yourself if you want "
> > +comment "to use any of those package managers. "
> > +comment " "
> > +comment "See the manual: "
> > +comment "http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages"
> > +comment "------------------------------------------------------------------------"
>
> Don't know how important this is, but on a 80-character display it gets chopped
> off after the faq-no-. But I guess there's not much we can do about it.
> Except perhaps: http://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages
> - still doesn't fit but at least we get to the binary-pa :-)
What about;
comment "-----------------------------------------------------"
comment "Please note: "
comment "- Buildroot does *not* generate binary packages, "
comment "- Buildroot does *not* install any package database. "
comment "* "
comment "It is up to you to provide those by yourself if you "
comment "want to use any of those package managers. "
comment "* "
comment "See the manual: "
comment "http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manaul.html#faq"
comment "-no-binary-packages "
comment "-----------------------------------------------------"
This does fit on a 80-char wide terminal, and we get the complete URL on
two lines.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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