[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] Add FAQ entry how to properly add package from github.

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 20:28:00 UTC 2012


Hi Marek,

2012/9/17 Marek Belisko <marek.belisko at open-nandra.com>:
> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko at open-nandra.com>
> ---
>  docs/manual/faq.txt |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/faq.txt b/docs/manual/faq.txt
> index 575d019..f04a93e 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/faq.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/faq.txt
> @@ -36,3 +36,23 @@ then probably you are running a Fedora (or similar) distribution, and
>  you should install the +glibc-static+ package. This is because the
>  +module-init-tools+ build process wants to link statically against the
>  C library.
> +
> +How to add package from github
> +------------------------------
> +
> +If package don't have version number and want to use SHA1
> +(it's enough to use first 7 characters from SHA1):

IANA native English speaker, but I'd have rephrased this with
something like that:

If the package has no release version, or its version cannot be
identified using tag, then the sha1 of the particular commit should be
used to identify the version (the first 7 characters of the sha1 are
enough):

> +
> +------------------------
> +FOO_VERSION = 1234567
> +FOO_SOURCE = <user>-<package>-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.gz
> +FOO_SITE = http://github.com/<user>/<package>/tarball/<branch>
> +------------------------
> +
> +If package have version number use:

Same here:

If the package version matches a tag, then this tag should be used to
identify the version:

> +
> +------------------------
> +FOO_VERSION = v1.0
> +FOO_SOURCE = <user>-<package>-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.gz
> +FOO_SITE = http://github.com/<user>/<package>/tarball/$(FOO_VERSION)
> +------------------------


Regards,

-- 
Sam


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