From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:30:11 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH for-2012.11 2/4] manual: more warnings to not use output/target In-Reply-To: <1354005013-28626-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> References: <1354005013-28626-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <1354005013-28626-2-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) --- .topdeps | 2 +- .topmsg | 16 +--------------- docs/manual/using.txt | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/.topdeps b/.topdeps index 1f7391f..d46ee1c 100644 --- a/.topdeps +++ b/.topdeps @@ -1 +1 @@ -master +t/manual diff --git a/.topmsg b/.topmsg index f070122..367c0df 100644 --- a/.topmsg +++ b/.topmsg @@ -1,18 +1,4 @@ From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) -Subject: [PATCH] manual: various fixes - -Various minor linguistic fixes and consistency and correctness -improvements. - -Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant. +Subject: [PATCH] manual: more warnings to not use output/target Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) ---- -Since you need a lot of context to review documentation, I increased the -context to 5 lines. - -I originally planned to include only trivial fixes, but there turn -out to be a few more invasive changes. If necessary, I can split the -patch into trivial and potentially-controversial. I haven't done that -yet because I wanted to get this patch out ASAP for the 2012.11 release. -Unless I get some ACKs earlier, I'll split the patch tomorrow. diff --git a/docs/manual/using.txt b/docs/manual/using.txt index 6e144d0..857aa33 100644 --- a/docs/manual/using.txt +++ b/docs/manual/using.txt @@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ This directory contains several subdirectories: * +target/+ which contains 'almost' the complete root filesystem for the target: everything needed is present except the device files in +/dev/+ (Buildroot can't create them because Buildroot doesn't run - as root and doesn't want to run as root). Therefore, this directory + as root and doesn't want to run as root). Also, it doesn't have the correct + permissions (e.g. setuid for the busybox binary). Therefore, this directory *should not be used on your target*. Instead, you should use one of the images built in the +images/+ directory. If you need an extracted image of the root filesystem for booting over NFS, then -- 1.7.10.4