The script "utils/check-package" checks that patch email prefix are
not be numbered. See:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_patch.py?h=2022.08-rc1#n42
The error message recommends to generate patches to be included in
Buildroot with the command 'git format-patch -N'.
The patch policy section in the Buildroot manual does mention that.
This commit adds a note about that requirement.
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The "find" and "xargs" commands, from the "findutils" package are used
during the build process. See for example [1].
Even if it's a quite common package which is almost sure to be present
on the host, it should be listed here. When writing new recipes, hooks
and scripts, it is generally safe and portable to restrict to the
host dependencies listed in those prerequisites.
This commit just add the missing "findutils" package in this list.
[1] https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/Makefile?h=2022.05.1#n737
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The manual explanation seemed to imply that the cache is always in
~/.buildroot-ccache/, but it's just the default value. Clarify this
point.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Back many years ago, we developed an Eclipse plugin that simplified
the usage of Buildroot toolchains. Enabling the BR2_ECLIPSE_REGISTER=y
was registering the Buildroot toolchain into a special file in your
HOME folder that the Eclipse plugin would recognize to allow to
directly use the Buildroot cross-compiler.
This Eclipse plugin has not been maintained for years. The last commit
in the repository dates back from September 2017. Since then Eclipse
has moved on, and the plugin is no longer compatible with current
versions of Eclipse.
Also, Eclipse is probably no longer that widely used in the embedded
Linux space, as other more modern IDEs have become more popular.
All in all, it's time to say good bye to this Eclipse integration.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Add a section to the "Integration topics" chapter about how we integrate
systemd. Add a first subsection about how dbus and dbus-broker work with
systemd.
This is just the start of the integration information about systemd.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
We want to add more information in the manual about how a system created
with buildroot works overall. We currently already have a chapter about
SELinux, but we want to add more information like that, e.g. details
about how systemd in Buildroot works.
Create a new chapter "Integration topics" with an introductory blurb,
and move the SELinux topic under it (as a section rather than a
chapter).
"Integration topics" is not the best title, but we couldn't find
anything better.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: remove selinux from main manual.txt]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The command `cmp` is used by `package/pkg-generic.mk` at commit
8623cc5deb. This command is provided by `diffutils`, so it should be
installed on the host system.
Signed-off-by: José Luis Salvador Rufo <salvador.joseluis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Commit "45aabcddc5 utils/get-developers: really make it callable from
elsewhere than the toplevel directory" had a unforeseen side-effect:
the fact that check-developers with no arguments used to validate the
syntax of the DEVELOPERS no longer works. Indeed, the
parse_developers() call was moved *after* the check that verifies if
at least one action is passed. Due to this, the check-DEVELOPERS
verification in Gitlab CI, which invokes get-developers without
argument to validate the DEVELOPERS file... no longer does anything
useful.
In order to fix this, we introduce an explicit action in
get-developers to request the validation of the DEVELOPERS file. The
implementation is trivial, as the validation is already done by
calling parse_developers(), but at least now we have an action that
does "nothing", except execute until the validation is done.
This is also much more explicit than "invoke get-developers without
arguments to just do validation".
The initial investigation of the issue was done by Ricardo Martincoski
<ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> and reported at
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20220528014832.289907-1-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com/,
but we have chosen to introduce a separate -v option rather than
making the validation part of the existing -c action, which serves a
different purpose.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Whenever possible, we want to use the "shortcuts" provided by genimage
for the partition-type-uuid values:
- U for the EFI System Partition
- F for FAT32 partitions
- L for root filesystem partitions and other Linux filesystems
In follow-up commits, we will convert existing genimage.cfg to this
convention, except for the root filesystem, if the existing
genimage.cfg specifies a partition-type-uuid that doesn't match the
one that "L" would imply. In this case, we will keep things as-is to
not break existing setups. However, for all future genimage.cfg files,
we recommend to use "L" for the root filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Peter Korsgaard
Julien Olivain
Thomas Petazzoni
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
José Luis Salvador Rufo
Fabrice Fontaine