[Buildroot] [PATCH] Revert "manual: Add notes about GitHub and hashes"
Samuel Martin
s.martin49 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 15:26:14 UTC 2015
This note is no longer needed, so remove it.
Tarballs generated by GitHub are always the same, so hashes can be
checked.
This reverts commit 9474cc2594c8643301164500ce6eb62546da2b8f.
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
---
docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
index b66e447..8745c41 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
@@ -449,13 +449,6 @@ strong hash yourself (preferably +sha256+, but not +md5+), and mention
this in a comment line above the hashes.
.Note
-If +libfoo+ is from GitHub (see xref:github-download-url[] for details), we
-can only accept a +.hash+ file if the package is a released (e.g. uploaded
-by the maintainer) tarball. Otherwise, the automatically generated tarball
-may change over time, and thus its hashes may be different each time it is
-downloaded, causing a +.hash+ mismatch for that tarball.
-
-.Note
The number of spaces does not matter, so one can use spaces (or tabs) to
properly align the different fields.
--
2.6.1
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