Commit afdd5ceb authored by Thomas De Schampheleire's avatar Thomas De Schampheleire Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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manual/getting started: rework 'Getting Buildroot' section 



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: default avatarThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 3dde8501

docs/manual/getting.txt

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[[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/[].



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

---------------------

Release tarballs are available at http://buildroot.org/downloads/[].



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.