[Buildroot] [PATCH] package: add comment about ipkg/opkg/rpm

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Aug 24 19:44:19 UTC 2015


On 08/23/2015 11:47 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Arnout, All,
> 
> On 2015-08-23 00:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
[snip]
>>
>>  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.

 ... which is also not ideal, since it means that the URL can't be copy&paste'd
easily, and that people with a modern terminal that is more than 80 characters
wide can't ctrl-click (or whatever) to open the URL directly.

 So I think it's best to use the slightly shorter nightly URL and keep it
non-wrapped.

 Or actually, it's best to add a manual.html -> downloads/manual/manual.html
symlink to the website and refer to that. This fits easily:
http://buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages
And it also makes it easier for us to refer to the manual in other places.

 Peter, what do you think of such a symlink?


 Regards,
 Arnout

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