From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] How to figure out what a package is?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:12:15 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hd1otv$erv$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE190901E84907@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com
On 2009-11-06, H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 06, 2009 10:35 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> This sounds a bit stupid, but where do you find a description
>> of what a given package is?
>>
>> I've got a list of packages supported by buildroot.
>>
>> How do I know what, for example, the package named "lite" is?
>>
>> Googling for the name has proven pointless...
>
> Look at the help for the package...
And the help for a package is located...
[drumroll]
in the Config.in file that's in each of the package directories.
For my "lite" example, it's package/lite/Config.in
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-06 17:35 [Buildroot] How to figure out what a package is? Grant Edwards
2009-11-06 18:02 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2009-11-06 18:12 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2009-11-06 18:24 ` Thiago A. Corrêa
2009-11-06 18:37 ` Grant Edwards
2009-11-06 19:00 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-11-07 14:57 ` Thiago A. Corrêa
2009-11-06 18:57 ` Peter Korsgaard
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