[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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