[Buildroot] [git commit] docs/manual: cleanup github helper docs

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Nov 11 20:49:37 UTC 2014


commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=f26ffd7afdbd36d61e8d5754750af3730e69b7c4
branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Explicitly state that the github helper should not be used when there is
a release tarball.

Properly render the list by separating it from the previous paragraph.

[Peter: fix typo as pointed out by Maxime]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt
index 0c6018a..6f5e785 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-tips.txt
@@ -61,10 +61,11 @@ may be slightly different (e.g. it contains a configure script so we don't
 need to do AUTORECONF).
 
 You can see on the release page if it's an uploaded tarball or a git tag:
+
 - If there is a green download button, like
   https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2/releases/tag/v1.9.1[mongrel2], then it
   was uploaded by the maintainer and you should use the link of that button to
-  specify +FOO_SITE+.
+  specify +FOO_SITE+, and not use the 'github' helper.
 - If there is grey download button, like
   https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases/tag/13.2-Gotham[xbmc], then it's an
   automatically generated tarball and you should use the 'github' helper


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