From b6009b94ca5721b0601b689fc350e1713f342239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 05:22:42 +0000 Subject: docs/manual: update to mention the multiple patches support After the modification of the _PATCH semantic, let's update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/manual') diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index 0759d4fce..7b8561a1c 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt @@ -156,14 +156,17 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : +packagename-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.gz+. + Example: +LIBFOO_SOURCE = foobar-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.bz2+ -* +LIBFOO_PATCH+ may contain the name of a patch, that will be - downloaded from the same location as the tarball indicated in - +LIBFOO_SOURCE+. If +HOST_LIBFOO_PATCH+ is not specified, it - defaults to +LIBFOO_PATCH+. Note that patches that are included - in Buildroot itself use a different mechanism: all files of the - form +-*.patch+ present in the package directory inside +* +LIBFOO_PATCH+ may contain a space-separated list of patch file + names, that will be downloaded from the same location as the tarball + indicated in +LIBFOO_SOURCE+, and then applied to the package source + code. If +HOST_LIBFOO_PATCH+ is not specified, it defaults to + +LIBFOO_PATCH+. Note that patches that are included in Buildroot + itself use a different mechanism: all files of the form + +-*.patch+ present in the package directory inside Buildroot will be applied to the package after extraction (see - xref:patch-policy[patching a package]). + xref:patch-policy[patching a package]). Finally, patches listed in + the +LIBFOO_PATCH+ variable are applied _before_ the patches stored + in the Buildroot package directory. * +LIBFOO_SITE+ provides the location of the package, which can be a URL or a local filesystem path. HTTP, FTP and SCP are supported URL -- cgit v1.2.3