[Buildroot] [PATCH] manual/faq: add section about why no binary packages

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Jan 5 20:44:23 UTC 2014


From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

It somes up evry now and then on the list, so better be prepared to
point at the manual, rather than rehash the same evry time.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>
---
 docs/manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt b/docs/manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt
index 4e0612b..e97457a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt
@@ -111,3 +111,24 @@ directory as the new root, will most likely fail.
 If you want to run the target filesystem inside a chroot, or as an NFS
 root, then use the tarball image generated in +images/+ and extract it
 as root.
+
+[[faq-no-binary-packages]]
+Why doesn't Buildroot generate binary packages (.deb, .ipkg...)?
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Buildroot explicitly avoids generating binary packages, on purpose.
+
+Buildroot strive at making it easy to generate a root filesystem (hence
+the name, by the way). That is what we want to make Buildroot good at:
+building root filesystems.
+
+Buildroot is not meant to be a distribution (or rather, a distribution
+generator). It is the opinion of most Buildroot developpers (me included)
+that this is not a goal we should pursue. We believe that there are other
+tools better suited to generate a distro than Buildroot is. For example,
+http://openembedded.org/[Open Embedded], or https://openwrt.org/[openWRT],
+are such tools.
+
+Rather, we prefer to push Buildroot in a direction that makes it easy
+(or even easier) to generate complete root filesystems. This is what
+makes Buildroot stands out in the crowd (among other things, of course!).
-- 
1.8.1.2




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