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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index 58cc1b89e3..7ff0a6174c 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt @@ -230,7 +230,9 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : 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 + from source code management systems. There is a helper function to make + it easier to download source tarballs from github (refer to + xref:github-download-url[] for details). 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. + @@ -244,7 +246,6 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : Examples: + +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/+ |
