Re: [PATCH] devtools: add a bb for git-manpages

[Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>]

[Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] devtools: add a bb for git-manpages] On 02/02/2015 (Mon 17:04) Paul Eggleton wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Friday 30 January 2015 19:08:25 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > These could be created from scratch from git itself, but it
> > requires asciidoc, xsltproc, python bits and too much other
> > baggage.  Since the git folks issue a tarball with the manpages
> > for each release, it is simpler to just go get that.
> 
> I'm just wondering, would it be simpler to just do this as part of the git 
> recipe itself and have the manpages go into git-doc? Then you would get the 
> documentation automatically if you had git in your image and doc-pkgs in 
> IMAGE_FEATURES, plus we wouldn't have to remember to upgrade this every time 
> we upgraded the git recipe.

I'm sure we can do that if desired.  It is probably worth mentioning
that I had this standalone recipe off in a layer for a while, and after
discussions on how to deal with coreutils and the mess it creats with
the openly hostile to cross-compile "help2man" that the idea of a
separate bb for manpages appeared acceptable.  So, based on that, I
figured it was time to post my git-manpages bb.

This brings me back to coreutils -- should we source prebuilt manpages
within the main recipe there too, or do a coreutils-manpages.bb  ?

P.
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> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre