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| author | Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> | 2015-10-03 23:18:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2015-10-04 17:04:16 +0100 |
| commit | ad9c7ee554bb8b6f69429e8d1585d0555a42f06c (patch) | |
| tree | b4dfd3258740688077488e2b43952ffc959e1eba /docs | |
| parent | eb5e5b49d63123f20f2d1fdea56d304c44376f76 (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-ad9c7ee554bb8b6f69429e8d1585d0555a42f06c.tar.gz buildroot-ad9c7ee554bb8b6f69429e8d1585d0555a42f06c.zip | |
docs/manual: document new actual source package variables
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 19 |
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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index 40798c0283..9d6401ff02 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt @@ -388,6 +388,25 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : to let you know, and +not saved+ will appear in the +license files+ field of the manifest file for this package. +* +LIBFOO_ACTUAL_SOURCE_TARBALL+ only applies to packages whose + +LIBFOO_SITE+ / +LIBTOO_SOURCE+ pair points to an archive that does + not actually contain source code, but binary code. This a very + uncommon case, only known to apply to external toolchains which come + already compiled, although theoretically it might apply to other + packages. In such cases a separate tarball is usually available with + the actual source code. Set +LIBFOO_ACTUAL_SOURCE_TARBALL+ to the + name of the actual source code archive and Buildroot will download + it and use it when you run +make legal-info+ to collect + legally-relevant material. Note this file will not be downloaded + during regular builds nor by +make source+. + +* +LIBFOO_ACTUAL_SOURCE_SITE+ provides the location of the actual + source tarball. The default value is +LIBFOO_SITE+, so you don't + need to set this variable if the binary and source archives are + hosted on the same directory. If +LIBFOO_ACTUAL_SOURCE_TARBALL+ is + not set, it doesn't make sense to define + +LIBFOO_ACTUAL_SOURCE_SITE+. + * +LIBFOO_REDISTRIBUTE+ can be set to +YES+ (default) or +NO+ to indicate if the package source code is allowed to be redistributed. Set it to +NO+ for non-opensource packages: Buildroot will not save the source code for this |
