Commit fe8d4626 authored by Nathan Lynch's avatar Nathan Lynch Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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docs: describe "file" and "local" methods in LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD 

Based on description by Thomas Petazzoni at:
http://free-electrons.com/blog/buildroot-2011-11/



Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: default avatarArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent 9fd16a17

docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt

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@@ -209,6 +209,14 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : 
  ** +bzr+ for retrieving source code from a Bazaar repository. Used

     by default when +LIBFOO_SITE+ begins with +bzr://+. The

     downloaded source code is cached as with the +svn+ method.

  ** +file+ for a local tarball.  One should use this when

     +LIBFOO_SITE+ specifies a package tarball as a local filename.

     Useful for software that isn't available publicly or in version

     control.

  ** +local+ for a local source code directory.  One should use this

     when +LIBFOO_SITE+ specifies a local directory path containing

     the package source code.  Buildroot copies the contents of the

     source directory into the package's build directory.



* +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of package

  name) that are required for the current target package to