From patchwork Sat Sep 15 21:57:27 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [v2,2/2] Add FAQ entry how to properly add package from github. Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:57:27 -0000 From: Marek Belisko X-Patchwork-Id: 184106 Message-Id: <1347746247-12033-2-git-send-email-marek.belisko@open-nandra.com> To: buildroot@busybox.net Cc: Marek Belisko Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko --- docs/manual/faq.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manual/faq.txt b/docs/manual/faq.txt index 575d019..abb499f 100644 --- a/docs/manual/faq.txt +++ b/docs/manual/faq.txt @@ -36,3 +36,23 @@ 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 +------------------------------ + +If package don't have version number and want to use SHA1 +(it's enough to use first 7 characters from SHA1): + +------------------------ +FOO_VERSION = 1234567 +FOO_SOURCE = user-package-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.gz +FOO_SITE = http://github.com/user/package/tarball/master +------------------------ + +If package have version number use: + +------------------------ +FOO_VERSION = v1.0 +FOO_SOURCE = user-package-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.gz +FOO_SITE = http://github.com/user/package/tarball/$(FOO_VERSION) +------------------------