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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

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! How's the wife?
                                  at               Is she at home enjoying
                               visi.com            capitalism?

  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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