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| author |   Koen Kooi <koen@openembedded.org> | 2006-05-29 12:48:33 +0000 |
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| committer |   OpenEmbedded Project <openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org> | 2006-05-29 12:48:33 +0000 |
| commit | f50e53b1f595a6aa7864d8bc8f43704b4ee660c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ac4cd0791a266a9ef644239739207a6e9109e9c | |
| parent | 664db0c9a5b169f9b4aade9a178f9038269bd7e4 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-f50e53b1f595a6aa7864d8bc8f43704b4ee660c9.tar.gz | |
usermanual/usermanual.xml: start merging with embworld-oe.dbk
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usermanual/usermanual.xml b/usermanual/usermanual.xml index 6d45053c86..a021cbecc8 100644 --- a/usermanual/usermanual.xml +++ b/usermanual/usermanual.xml @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ <year>2006</year> <holder>Holger Hans Peter Freyther</holder> <holder>Koen Kooi</holder> + <holder>Detlef Vollmann</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ <title>Introduction</title> <section> <title>Overview</title> - <para><ulink url="http://www.openembedded.org"><application>OpenEmbedded</application></ulink> is a set of metadata used to cross-compile, package and install software packages. <application>OpenEmbedded</application> is being used to build and maintain a number of embedded Linux distributions, including OpenZaurus, Angström, Familiar and SlugOS.</para> + <para> Like any build tool (make, ant, jam), the OpenEmbedded build tool BitBake controls how to build things and the build dependencies. But unlike single project tools like <command>make</command> it is not based on one makefile or a closed set of inter-dependent makefiles, but collects and manages an open set of largely independent build descriptions (package recipes) and builds them in proper order. </para> + <para>To be more precise:<ulink url="http://www.openembedded.org"><application>OpenEmbedded</application></ulink> is a set of metadata used to cross-compile, package and install software packages. <application>OpenEmbedded</application> is being used to build and maintain a number of embedded Linux distributions, including OpenZaurus, Angström, Familiar and SlugOS.</para> <para>The primary use-case of <application>OpenEmbedded</application> are: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Handle cross-compilation.</para></listitem> @@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ You'll need monotone 0.25 to get the metadata and stay up to date. Monotone is a <screen> #get the snapshot -wget http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/OE/OE.db.bz2 http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/OE/OE.db.bz2.md5sum +wget http://openembedded.org/snapshots/OE.db.bz2 http://openembedded.org/snapshots/OE.db.bz2.md5 #verify the integrity cat OE.db.bz2.md5sum |