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docs: update LIBFOO_SITE to describe use of filesystem paths

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Buildroot supports the use of local filesystem paths in LIBFOO_SITE
since the 2011.11 release, but this is not documented in the manual.
Fix this and slightly reword the surrounding doucmentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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Nathan Lynch 2012-06-17 11:53:59 +00:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
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docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt
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@ -156,13 +156,18 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
package directory inside Buildroot will be applied to the package
after extraction.
* +LIBFOO_SITE+ may contain the Internet location of the package. It
can either be the HTTP, FTP or SCP location of a tarball, or the URL
of a Git, Subversion, Mercurial or Bazaar repository (see
+LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ below). +
SCP URLs should be of the form +scp://[user@]host:filepath+. Note
that filepath is relative to the user's home directory, so you may want
to prepend the path with a slash for absolute paths:
* +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,
and Bazaar are supported URL types for retrieving packages directly
from source code management systems. A filesystem path may be used
to specify either a tarball or a directory containing the package
source code. See +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ below for more details on how
retrieval works. +
Note that SCP URLs should be of the form
+scp://[user@]host:filepath+, and that filepath is relative to the
user's home directory, so you may want to prepend the path with a
slash for absolute paths:
+scp://[user@]host:/absolutepath+. +
If +HOST_LIBFOO_SITE+ is not specified, it defaults to
+LIBFOO_SITE+. If none are specified, then the location is assumed
@ -172,6 +177,8 @@ 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=git://github.com/kergoth/tslib.git+
+LIBFOO_SITE=/opt/software/libfoo.tar.gz+
+LIBFOO_SITE=$(TOPDIR)/../src/libfoo/+
* +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ may contain the method to fetch the package
source code. It can either be +wget+ (for normal FTP/HTTP downloads