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Yann E. MORIN dc1ba281a5 docs/manual: makedevs only accepts numerical values
Because of a limitation in how makedevs resolves names [0], usernames
and groupnames would be resolved with UIDs and GIDs from the host, not
the target.

Fixing makedevs would involve us rewriting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group
parser (not too complex, still not trivial).

Document that the user and group fields should only be numbers, not
names. Also, the manual is currently misleading, as an example indeed
uses names for the user and group fields. Fix that and expand the
explanations.

The mode field should also be numbers, not a rwx combo.

Slight typographical eye-candy about major/minor fields.

[0] it uses getpwnma(3) and getgrnam(3) to resolve names to IDs, and
those only resolve names on the host (i.e. there is no way to specify
a chroot-like feature)

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-08-29 10:35:28 +02:00
arch arch/arm: add missing arm1136j-s variant 2015-08-24 00:43:12 +02:00
board board: add support for ARC AXS101 and AXS103 Software Development Platforms 2015-08-04 20:05:23 +02:00
boot grub2: build El Torito image only for i386 PC platform 2015-07-29 17:03:15 +02:00
configs board: add support for ARC AXS101 and AXS103 Software Development Platforms 2015-08-04 20:05:23 +02:00
docs docs/manual: makedevs only accepts numerical values 2015-08-29 10:35:28 +02:00
fs fs: iso9660: change boot menu entry text 2015-08-18 21:42:51 +02:00
linux linux: enable all options needed by xtables-addons 2015-08-23 21:01:51 +02:00
package package/cppcms: bump to 1.0.5 2015-08-29 10:34:49 +02:00
support docs/manual: fix generation of deprecated list 2015-08-02 19:18:51 +02:00
system skeleton: New package 2015-07-14 18:08:23 +02:00
toolchain toolchain/external: ensure gcc version is known 2015-08-18 11:47:23 +02:00
.defconfig arch: kill avr32 2015-02-14 17:39:50 +01:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2015.08-rc2 2015-08-24 22:20:16 +02:00
Config.in core: fix download menu 2015-07-14 09:46:51 +02:00
Config.in.legacy package/opencv: re-introduce opencv for opencv-2.4 2015-08-25 11:56:57 +02:00
COPYING clarify license and fix website license link 2009-05-08 09:29:41 +02:00
Makefile Update for 2015.08-rc2 2015-08-24 22:20:16 +02:00
Makefile.legacy Makefile.legacy: fix recursive invocation with BUILDROOT_DL_DIR and _CONFIG 2014-02-11 08:14:57 +01:00
README README: mention 'make list-defconfigs' 2015-04-04 15:19:43 +02:00

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded
Linux systems through cross-compilation.

The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text
document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text.
Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html

To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following:

1) run 'make menuconfig'
2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile
3) run 'make'
4) wait while it compiles
5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images

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