From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas De Schampheleire Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:20:12 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 7 of 8 RFCv2 for 2014.08] manual/getting started: rework 'Getting Buildroot' section In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <770cb501d536d02719c9.1407874812@localhost> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net This patch reworks the 'Getting Buildroot' section of the manual as follows: - be more specific on the Buildroot release cycle - refer to the download page of the website for details on snapshots and git, instead of duplicating the information. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire --- docs/manual/getting.txt | 26 ++++++++------------------ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff -r 093e0ba716de -r 770cb501d536 docs/manual/getting.txt --- a/docs/manual/getting.txt Tue Aug 12 21:34:32 2014 +0200 +++ b/docs/manual/getting.txt Tue Aug 12 21:11:54 2014 +0200 @@ -4,23 +4,13 @@ [[getting-buildroot]] == Getting Buildroot -Buildroot releases are made approximately every 3 months. Direct Git -access and daily snapshots are also available, if you want more -bleeding edge. +Buildroot releases are made every 3 months, in February, May, August and +November. Release numbers are in the format YYYY.MM, so for example +2013.02, 2014.08. -Releases are available at http://buildroot.net/downloads/[]. +Release tarballs are available at http://buildroot.org/downloads/[]. -The latest snapshot is always available at -http://buildroot.net/downloads/snapshots/buildroot-snapshot.tar.bz2[], -and previous snapshots are also available at -http://buildroot.net/downloads/snapshots/[]. - -To download Buildroot using Git, you can simply follow the rules -described on the "Accessing Git" page -(http://buildroot.net/git.html[]) of the Buildroot website -(http://buildroot.net[]). For the impatient, here's a quick recipe: - ---------------------- - $ git clone git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot ---------------------- - +If you want to follow development, you can use the daily snapshots or +make a clone of the Git repository. Refer to the +http://buildroot.org/download[Download page] of the Buildroot website +for more details.