manual: Add note about uses of github helper
Add a little comment regarding the uses of the github helper for the releases. [Arnout: extend the comment a little] Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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@ -52,3 +52,20 @@ FOO_SITE = $(call github,<user>,<package>,$(FOO_VERSION))
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Buildroot (e.g.: +foo-f6fb6654af62045239caed5950bc6c7971965e60.tar.gz+),
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so it is not necessary to specify it in the +.mk+ file.
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- When using a commit ID as version, you should use the full 40 hex characters.
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If the package you wish to add does have a release section on GitHub, the
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maintainer may have uploaded a release tarball, or the release may just point
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to the automatically generated tarball from the git tag. If there is a
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release tarball uploaded by the maintainer, we prefer to use that since it
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may be slightly different (e.g. it contains a configure script so we don't
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need to do AUTORECONF).
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You can see on the release page if it's an uploaded tarball or a git tag:
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- If there is a green download button, like
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https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2/releases/tag/v1.9.1[mongrel2], then it
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was uploaded by the maintainer and you should use the link of that button to
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specify +FOO_SITE+.
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- If there is grey download button, like
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https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases/tag/13.2-Gotham[xbmc], then it's an
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automatically generated tarball and you should use the 'github' helper
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function.
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