[Buildroot] [PATCH] package: add comment about ipkg/opkg/rpm

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Arnout, All,

On 2015-08-24 21:44 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 08/23/2015 11:47 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2015-08-23 00:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> [snip]
> >>
> >>  Don't know how important this is, but on a 80-character display it gets chopped
> >> off after the faq-no-. But I guess there's not much we can do about it.
> >> Except perhaps: http://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages
> >> - still doesn't fit but at least we get to the binary-pa :-)
> > 
> > What about;
> > 
> >     comment "-----------------------------------------------------"
> >     comment "Please note:                                         "
> >     comment "- Buildroot does *not* generate binary packages,     "
> >     comment "- Buildroot does *not* install any package database. "
> >     comment "*                                                    "
> >     comment "It is up to you to provide those by yourself if you  "
> >     comment "want to use any of those package managers.           "
> >     comment "*                                                    "
> >     comment "See the manual:                                      "
> >     comment "http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manaul.html#faq"
> >     comment "-no-binary-packages                                  "
> >     comment "-----------------------------------------------------"
> > 
> > This does fit on a 80-char wide terminal, and we get the complete URL on
> > two lines.
> 
>  ... which is also not ideal, since it means that the URL can't be copy&paste'd
> easily, and that people with a modern terminal that is more than 80 characters
> wide can't ctrl-click (or whatever) to open the URL directly.

Right, but then, it's better than npthing, no?

>  So I think it's best to use the slightly shorter nightly URL and keep it
> non-wrapped.

I would not like we use the nightly version, just because nightly is
not stable.

>  Or actually, it's best to add a manual.html -> downloads/manual/manual.html
> symlink to the website and refer to that. This fits easily:
> http://buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages
> And it also makes it easier for us to refer to the manual in other places.
> 
>  Peter, what do you think of such a symlink?

At least, I'd like that.

Since I have access to the server, if Peter agrees, I can try to
configure the apache server for that.

But note that this apache server also serves ulibc and busybox.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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