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

[Samuel Martin]

Hi Yann, all,

2014/1/5 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

> 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.
>
s/evry/every/ (twice)
hmm... you typed faster than your keyboard can handle? ;-)


>
> 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)
>
s/(me included)//
Well, this is the manual, not a mail answer; so it'd be better to make this
impersonal.

+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
>
>
I think i have something roughly about this and other in one of my
doc-branches, but i lack time to work on it :-/
Meanwhile, an entry in the FAQ is good enough to me.

Regards,

-- 
Samuel
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