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

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 06:01:14 UTC 2012


2012/9/17 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>:
> Marek, All,
>
> On Monday 17 September 2012 22:46:41 Marek Belisko wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko at open-nandra.com>
>
> Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>

>
>> ---
>>  docs/manual/faq.txt |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/manual/faq.txt b/docs/manual/faq.txt
>> index 575d019..d2ffb07 100644
>> --- a/docs/manual/faq.txt
>> +++ b/docs/manual/faq.txt
>> @@ -36,3 +36,26 @@ 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 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>-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.gz
>> +FOO_SITE = http://github.com/<user>/<package>/tarball/<branch>
>> +------------------------
>> +
>> +If the package version matches a tag, then this tag should be used to
>> +identify the version:
>> +
>> +------------------------
>> +FOO_VERSION = v1.0
>> +FOO_SOURCE = <user>-<package>-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.gz
>> +FOO_SITE = http://github.com/<user>/<package>/tarball/$(FOO_VERSION)
>> +------------------------
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
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