From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] doc/manual: rsync is not optional
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:23:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r61no5t.fsf@48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231210191939.1487618-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:19:39 +0100")
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
> rsync is used in the infrastructure, mostly for the per-package infra,
> and for the override-srcdir mechanism, but also to build the manual.
> As such, it is not optional but mandatory, and already listed so.
> Drop the reference to rsync from the list of optional packages.
> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
You could argue that there would be use cases for not building the
manual, using override-srcdir or per-package builds, but it is also used
for creating the file systems, so indeed required.
Committed, thanks.
> ---
> docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc b/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc
> index 48be489f90..262a5153f5 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc
> +++ b/docs/manual/prerequisite.adoc
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ development packages typically have a _-dev_ or _-devel_ suffix.
> In the official tree, most of the package sources are retrieved using
> +wget+ from _ftp_, _http_ or _https_ locations. A few packages are only
> available through a version control system. Moreover, Buildroot is
> -capable of downloading sources via other tools, like +rsync+ or +scp+
> +capable of downloading sources via other tools, like +git+ or +scp+
> (refer to xref:download-infra[] for more details). If you enable
> packages using any of these methods, you will need to install the
> corresponding tool on the host system:
> @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ corresponding tool on the host system:
> ** +cvs+
> ** +git+
> ** +mercurial+
> -** +rsync+
> ** +scp+
> ** +sftp+
> ** +subversion+
> --
> 2.43.0
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2023-12-10 19:19 [Buildroot] [PATCH] doc/manual: rsync is not optional Yann E. MORIN
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