Commit a84840bf authored by Marek Belisko's avatar Marek Belisko Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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Add FAQ entry how to properly add package from github. 



Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Belisko <marek.belisko@open-nandra.com>
Acked-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent c2d525e8

docs/manual/faq.txt

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@@ -36,3 +36,24 @@ 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

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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):



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FOO_VERSION = 1234567

FOO_SITE = http://github.com/<user>/<package>/tarball/<branch>

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

identify the version:



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FOO_VERSION = v1.0

FOO_SITE = http://github.com/<user>/<package>/tarball/$(FOO_VERSION)

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