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

[Samuel Martin]

Hi Thomas,

2013/3/13 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Samuel Martin,
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:41:27 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> 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?


Regards,

-- 
Samuel