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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2013-10-08 20:17:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2013-10-08 22:58:49 +0200 |
| commit | 2c13d5bc60749717634fac60b8165a3e2567bcdb (patch) | |
| tree | 7dcf635b622b91fdd3daccacb57ca7619bad81b1 /docs | |
| parent | 03b05402df6f2a06ffc936c6364da5951f315197 (diff) | |
package: add a <pkg>_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 <pkg>_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 <pkg>_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 <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index cb067bd4e..59a268474 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+ |