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authorJavier Jardón <jjardon@gnome.org>2018-06-10 20:51:41 +0100
committerTristan Van Berkom <tristan.vanberkom@codethink.co.uk>2018-06-22 13:03:44 -0400
commitd9a433a76fa8535b96e1fbb3842bbcf07c790e85 (patch)
treec27c85de468aa150d5787baad6a2ae04b7ad3d9d
parent411dd10045dc295965a6049a3c7d09fe15dfc199 (diff)
downloadbuildstream-d9a433a76fa8535b96e1fbb3842bbcf07c790e85.tar.gz
BuildStream depends on host tools for Source plugins
-rw-r--r--doc/source/core_plugins.rst2
-rw-r--r--doc/source/install_main.rst4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/core_plugins.rst b/doc/source/core_plugins.rst
index 030597e27..029145879 100644
--- a/doc/source/core_plugins.rst
+++ b/doc/source/core_plugins.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Build elements
elements/pip
+.. _authoring_source_plugins:
+
Sources
-------
.. toctree::
diff --git a/doc/source/install_main.rst b/doc/source/install_main.rst
index 500c94ac2..2d698e4a4 100644
--- a/doc/source/install_main.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install_main.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ BuildStream requires the following base system requirements:
* PyGObject introspection bindings
* psutil python library (so you don't have to install GCC and python-devel to build it yourself)
+BuildStream also depends on the host tools for the :mod:`Source <buildstream.source>` plugins.
+Refer to the respective :ref:`authoring_source_plugins` documentation for host tool
+requirements of specific plugins.
+
If you intend to push built artifacts to a remote artifact server,
which requires special permissions, you will also need: