Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] doc/manual: rsync is not optional

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:

 > rsync is used in the infrastructure, mostly for the per-package infra,
 > and for the override-srcdir mechanism, but also to build the manual.
 > As such, it is not optional but mandatory, and already listed so.

 > Drop the reference to rsync from the list of optional packages.

 > Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

You could argue that there would be use cases for not building the
manual, using override-srcdir or per-package builds, but it is also used
for creating the file systems, so indeed required.

Committed, thanks.

> ---
 >  docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc | 3 +--
 >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

 > diff --git a/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc b/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc
 > index 48be489f90..262a5153f5 100644
 > --- a/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc
 > +++ b/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc
 > @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ development packages typically have a _-dev_ or _-devel_ suffix.
 >  In the official tree, most of the package sources are retrieved using
 >  +wget+ from _ftp_, _http_ or _https_ locations. A few packages are only
 >  available through a version control system. Moreover, Buildroot is
 > -capable of downloading sources via other tools, like +rsync+ or +scp+
 > +capable of downloading sources via other tools, like +git+ or +scp+
 >  (refer to xref:download-infra[] for more details). If you enable
 >  packages using any of these methods, you will need to install the
 >  corresponding tool on the host system:
 > @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ corresponding tool on the host system:
 >  ** +cvs+
 >  ** +git+
 >  ** +mercurial+
 > -** +rsync+
 >  ** +scp+
 >  ** +sftp+
 >  ** +subversion+
 > -- 

 > 2.43.0

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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