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-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt6
-rw-r--r--package/pkg-generic.mk1
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index cb067bd4e1..59a2684745 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -248,6 +248,12 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
+LIBFOO_SITE=/opt/software/libfoo.tar.gz+ +
+LIBFOO_SITE=$(TOPDIR)/../src/libfoo/+
+* +LIBFOO_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS+ lists a number of additional files that
+ Buildroot should download from +LIBFOO_SITE+ in addition to the main
+ +LIBFOO_SOURCE+ (which usually is a tarball). Buildroot will not do
+ anything with those additional files, except download files: it will
+ be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(DL_DIR)+.
+
* +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ determines the method used to fetch or copy the
package source code. In many cases, Buildroot guesses the method
from the contents of +LIBFOO_SITE+ and setting +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+
diff --git a/package/pkg-generic.mk b/package/pkg-generic.mk
index bfc4dc14f3..a46457c59d 100644
--- a/package/pkg-generic.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-generic.mk
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ ifeq ($(DL_MODE),DOWNLOAD)
fi
endif
$(if $($(PKG)_SOURCE),$(call DOWNLOAD,$($(PKG)_SITE:/=)/$($(PKG)_SOURCE)))
+ $(foreach p,$($(PKG)_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS),$(call DOWNLOAD,$($(PKG)_SITE:/=)/$(p))$(sep))
$(foreach p,$($(PKG)_PATCH),\
$(if $(findstring ://,$(p)),\
$(call DOWNLOAD,$(p)),\
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