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From: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 3/5] manual: more warnings to not use output/target
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:59:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354053560-30352-3-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354053560-30352-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be>

From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout@mind.be>

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
---
 docs/manual/using.txt |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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
@@ -84,11 +84,12 @@ This directory contains several subdirectories:
   libraries.
 
 * +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
   use the tarball image generated in +images/+ and extract it as
   root. Compared to +staging/+, +target/+ contains only the files and
-- 
1.7.10.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 21:59 [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 1/5] manual: trivial fixes Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-27 21:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 2/5] manual: various fixes Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-27 22:39   ` Samuel Martin
2012-11-27 22:51     ` Samuel Martin
2012-11-27 21:59 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2012-11-27 21:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 4/5] manual: give example where _INSTALL_TARGET = NO Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-27 21:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 5/5] manual: restructure 'Adding packages' chapter Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-28  1:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv3 for-2012.11 1/5] manual: trivial fixes Peter Korsgaard

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