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authorJerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>2013-09-06 08:14:15 +0200
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2013-09-08 22:44:23 +0200
commit62146ea3ad78b74d0c17c0fbeaffa2be51070424 (patch)
treebc76c8d6fdc8cdd82ada35796696691db80c0b93 /docs
parent159c692cd22cbc8507d1cc4c11ab8700ced1b2a6 (diff)
change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible
[Peter: leave change xz tarball format to not end up with circular deps] Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-autotools.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-cmake.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt4
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-autotools.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-autotools.txt
index 1e7b05886..9fb69d94d 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-autotools.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-autotools.txt
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ package, with an example :
On line 7, we declare the version of the package.
-On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball and the location
-of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically download the
-tarball from this location.
+On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+and the location of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically
+download the tarball from this location.
On line 10, we tell Buildroot to install the package to the staging
directory. The staging directory, located in +output/staging/+
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-cmake.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-cmake.txt
index b7388c81d..de4bd9881 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-cmake.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-cmake.txt
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ with an example :
On line 7, we declare the version of the package.
-On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball and the location
-of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically download the
-tarball from this location.
+On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+and the location of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically
+download the tarball from this location.
On line 10, we tell Buildroot to install the package to the staging
directory. The staging directory, located in +output/staging/+
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index 4e50f8f68..67967a2fe 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ system is based on hand-written Makefiles or shell scripts.
The Makefile begins on line 7 to 11 with metadata information: the
version of the package (+LIBFOO_VERSION+), the name of the
-tarball containing the package (+LIBFOO_SOURCE+) the
-Internet location at which the tarball can be downloaded from
+tarball containing the package (+LIBFOO_SOURCE+) (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+the Internet location at which the tarball can be downloaded from
(+LIBFOO_SITE+), the license (+LIBFOO_LICENSE+) and file with the
license text (+LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES+). All variables must start with
the same prefix, +LIBFOO_+ in this case. This prefix is always the