Revision as of 20:47, 1 August 2012

Discussion around the organization of the Buildroot manual

Configuration
- Explain the impact of the target architecture variant selection
- Explain the toolchain backends
- Explain the init systems
- Explain the /dev management strategies
How to add new packages
- The different package infrastructures
- Details on autotools-package infrastructure, on cmake-package infrastructure, generic-package infrastructure
- Details on how to write the Config.in files: when 'depends on' should be used, when 'select' should be used. How to properly handle dependencies on toolchain features (RPC, locale, etc.)
- Details on hooks
- Details on adding patches to packages
- Details on adding licensing information to packages
- Details on gettext/libiconv handling

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 == List of topics that must be covered ==
+* Configuration
+** Explain the impact of the target architecture variant selection
+** Explain the toolchain backends
+** Explain the init systems
+** Explain the /dev management strategies
+* How to add new packages
+** The different package infrastructures
+** Details on autotools-package infrastructure, on cmake-package infrastructure, generic-package infrastructure
+** Details on how to write the Config.in files: when 'depends on' should be used, when 'select' should be used. How to properly handle dependencies on toolchain features (RPC, locale, etc.)
+** Details on hooks
+** Details on adding patches to packages
+** Details on adding licensing information to packages
+** Details on gettext/libiconv handling