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| author | Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> | 2012-06-17 11:53:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> | 2012-07-02 07:28:34 +0200 |
| commit | c62b04ce9a029943185da187b8e6a17a52591cba (patch) | |
| tree | a7c42710de8e152591273a0b570316af4c5a8f1a /docs/manual | |
| parent | 468bbc1538aaea87beaf455a2ad6ea5a255d5f58 (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-novena-c62b04ce9a029943185da187b8e6a17a52591cba.tar.gz buildroot-novena-c62b04ce9a029943185da187b8e6a17a52591cba.zip | |
docs: update LIBFOO_SITE to describe use of filesystem paths
Buildroot supports the use of local filesystem paths in LIBFOO_SITE
since the 2011.11 release, but this is not documented in the manual.
Fix this and slightly reword the surrounding doucmentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt index cfcee8c8d..918580ef4 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt @@ -156,13 +156,18 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : package directory inside Buildroot will be applied to the package after extraction. -* +LIBFOO_SITE+ may contain the Internet location of the package. It - can either be the HTTP, FTP or SCP location of a tarball, or the URL - of a Git, Subversion, Mercurial or Bazaar repository (see - +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ below). + - SCP URLs should be of the form +scp://[user@]host:filepath+. Note - that filepath is relative to the user's home directory, so you may want - to prepend the path with a slash for absolute paths: +* +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 + types for retrieving package tarballs. Git, Subversion, Mercurial, + and Bazaar are supported URL types for retrieving packages directly + from source code management systems. A filesystem path may be used + to specify either a tarball or a directory containing the package + source code. See +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ below for more details on how + retrieval works. + + Note that SCP URLs should be of the form + +scp://[user@]host:filepath+, and that filepath is relative to the + user's home directory, so you may want to prepend the path with a + slash for absolute paths: +scp://[user@]host:/absolutepath+. + If +HOST_LIBFOO_SITE+ is not specified, it defaults to +LIBFOO_SITE+. If none are specified, then the location is assumed @@ -172,6 +177,8 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : +LIBFOO_SITE=http://www.libfoosoftware.org/libfoo+ + +LIBFOO_SITE=http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/+ + +LIBFOO_SITE=git://github.com/kergoth/tslib.git+ + +LIBFOO_SITE=/opt/software/libfoo.tar.gz+ + +LIBFOO_SITE=$(TOPDIR)/../src/libfoo/+ * +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ may contain the method to fetch the package source code. It can either be +wget+ (for normal FTP/HTTP downloads |