Commit c7ed1243 authored by Luca Ceresoli's avatar Luca Ceresoli Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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docs/manual: FOO_SITE must not have a trailing slash 



This has been the best practice since a long time, but it was not
clearly stated in the manual. Now it is mandatory, so mention it
explicitly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 947f20f2

docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt

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@@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : 


* +LIBFOO_SITE+ provides the location of the package, which can be a

  URL or a local filesystem path. HTTP, FTP and SCP are supported URL

  types for retrieving package tarballs. Git, Subversion, Mercurial,

  types for retrieving package tarballs. In these cases don't include a

  trailing slash: it will be added by Buildroot between the directory

  and the filename as appropriate. Git, Subversion, Mercurial,

  and Bazaar are supported URL types for retrieving packages directly

  from source code management systems. There is a helper function to make

  it easier to download source tarballs from GitHub (refer to
@@ -246,7 +248,7 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : 
    +LIBFOO_SITE=http://www.libfoosoftware.org/libfoo+ +

    +LIBFOO_SITE=http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor+ +

    +LIBFOO_SITE=/opt/software/libfoo.tar.gz+ +

    +LIBFOO_SITE=$(TOPDIR)/../src/libfoo/+

    +LIBFOO_SITE=$(TOPDIR)/../src/libfoo+



* +LIBFOO_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS+ is a space-separated list of additional

  files that Buildroot should download. If an entry contains +://+