From 2c13d5bc60749717634fac60b8165a3e2567bcdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 20:17:00 +0200 Subject: package: add a _EXTRA_DOWNLOADS variable Converting the external toolchain logic into a package raises a very special use case that wasn't handled by the package infrastructure: the Blackfin toolchain is delivered as two tarballs instead of one. Unfortunately _SOURCE only allows to pass one tarball name. However, we really want both tarballs to be known by the package infrastructure, so that the normal 'source' and 'external-deps' mechanism work fine. In order to achieve this, we add a _EXTRA_DOWNLOADS variable, which allows a package to list other stuff it would like to see downloaded, but that are otherwise not used by the package infrastructure itself: it is up to the package to do it by itself. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/manual') 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+ -- cgit v1.2.3