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

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 08:41:27 UTC 2013


Hi Thomas,

2013/3/12 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Samuel Martin,
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:47:15 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:
>
>> +manual-update-lists:
>> +     @$(call MESSAGE,"Updating the manual lists...")
>> +     $(Q)BR2_DEFCONFIG="" TOPDIR=$(TOPDIR) \
>> +             $(TOPDIR)/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py
>
> Sorry if this has been discussed before. Why don't we make this part of
> the normal manual build process (make manual-pdf, make manual-html,
> etc.), so that we don't have to version control the generated lists of
> packages, and this updating of the lists is done automatically whenever
> we generate the manual?
I don't remember we discussed a lot this point.

I don't have a strong opinion about this, but since there is some
date/version in
the generated files (see patch 5/5), I don't want to bother people
with this insignificant
change just because they (re)build the manual...

Regards,

-- 
Samuel



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