[Buildroot] [PATCH] manual: update download helper information
Thomas De Schampheleire
patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 13:47:40 UTC 2011
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>
> ---
> docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt
> --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt
> @@ -146,28 +146,36 @@ information is (assuming the package nam
> after extraction.
>
> * +LIBFOO_SITE+ may contain the Internet location of the package. It
> - can either be the HTTP or FTP location of a tarball, or the URL of a
> - Git or Subversion repository (see +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ below). If
> - +HOST_LIBFOO_SITE+ is not specified, it defaults to
> + 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:
> + +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
> to be
> +http://$$(BR2_SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR).dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/packagename+. +
> Examples: +LIBFOO_SITE=http://www.libfoosoftware.org/libfoo+ +
> - +LIBFOO_SITE=http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/+
> + +LIBFOO_SITE=http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/+ +
> + +LIBFOO_SITE=git://github.com/kergoth/tslib.git+
>
> * +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ may contain the method to fetch the package
> source code. It can either be +wget+ (for normal FTP/HTTP downloads
> - of tarballs), +svn+, +git+ or +bzr+. When not specified, it is
> - guessed from the URL given in +LIBFOO_SITE+: +svn://+, +git://+ and
> - +bzr://+ URLs will use the +svn+, +git+ and +bzr+ methods
> + of tarballs), +scp+ (for downloads over SSH with scp), +svn+, +git+,
> + +hg+ or +bzr+. When not specified, it is guessed from the URL given
> + in +LIBFOO_SITE+: +scp://+, +svn://+, +git://+ and
> + +bzr://+ URLs will use the +scp+, +svn+, +git+ and +bzr+ methods
> respectively. All other URL-types will use the +wget+ method. So for
> example, in the case of a package whose source code is available
> - through Subversion repository on HTTP, one 'must' specifiy
> - +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD=svn+. For +svn+ and +git+ methods, what
> - Buildroot does is a checkout/clone of the repository which is then
> - tarballed and stored into the download cache. Next builds will not
> - checkout/clone again, but will use the tarball directly. When
> - +HOST_LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ is not specified, it defaults to the value
> + through a Subversion repository on HTTP, one 'must' specifiy
> + +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD=svn+. Similarly, for Mercurial repositories, one
> + 'must' specify +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD=hg+. For +svn+, +git+, +hg+ and
> + +bzr+ methods, what Buildroot does is a checkout/clone of the repository
> + which is then tarballed and stored into the download cache. Next
> + builds will not checkout/clone again, but will use the tarball directly.
> + When +HOST_LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ is not specified, it defaults to the value
> of +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+. See +package/multimedia/tremor/+ for an
> example.
>
>
>
>
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