[Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] manual: cvs: document that a branch or a date can be used

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Aug 8 10:56:35 UTC 2015


commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=21036a58a20d9aa740a8e7de7352f64779f4d43b
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Also instead of using the generic word "timestamp" use the word "tag".

Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index 8cf6bb6..bc07667 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -280,7 +280,9 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
      Only anonymous pserver mode is supported.
      +LIBFOO_SITE+ 'must' contain the source URL as well as the remote
      repository directory. The module is the package name.
-     +LIBFOO_VERSION+ is 'mandatory' and 'must' be a timestamp.
+     +LIBFOO_VERSION+ is 'mandatory' and 'must' be a tag, a branch, or
+     a date (e.g. "2014-10-20", "2014-10-20 13:45", "2014-10-20
+     13:45+01" see "man cvs" for further details).
   ** +git+ for retrieving source code from a Git repository. Used by
      default when +LIBFOO_SITE+ begins with +git://+. The downloaded
      source code is cached as with the +svn+


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