[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] manual: add a make target 'manual-update-lists'

[Lionel Orry]

Hi all,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Samuel Martin,
>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:52:11 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:
>
>> > I'm not sure to understand the problem with the dates. I'd say you
>> > shouldn't put the date specifically in the list of packages. I would
>> > expect "make manual-pdf" to generate the list of packages with your
>> > script, get it included into the manual sources, and get the manual
>> > built.
>> >
>> > Separately, we may want to introduce something at the beginning of the
>> > manual that says at which date the manual was built, and on which Git
>> > version of the Buildroot sources. But I don't see a reason to make this
>> > related to the list of packages specifically.
>> Just to be sure, here, you mean something like a non-versioned version.txt file,
>> which would be automatically generated and included in manual.txt?
>
> Yes, something like that.

Can I suggest something like adding this line at the beginning of the manual:

Manual generated from git revision {sys:git rev-parse HEAD} on
{docdate} {doctime}.

This avoids an extra file generation, asciidoc can do it by itself.

Lionel

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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