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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt index 1b34b41518..01a1928e28 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt @@ -471,4 +471,10 @@ environment variable +BR2_ENFORCE_CHECK_HASH+ to a non-empty value, and there is no hash for a downloaded file, Buildroot considers this an error, deletes the downloaded file, and aborts. +Sources that are downloaded from a version control system (git, subversion, +etc...) can not have a hash, because the version control system and tar +may not create exactly the same file (dates, files ordering...), so the +hash could be wrong even for a valid download. Therefore, the hash check +is entirely skipped for such sources. + If the +.hash+ file is missing, then no check is done at all. |
