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authorFabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>2015-05-06 14:17:49 +0200
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2015-07-10 11:09:30 +0200
commit21036a58a20d9aa740a8e7de7352f64779f4d43b (patch)
tree03f871c77010c9aa814faa7a4ac97ed5b3a21c76 /docs
parent6c0d6592f400a48150d7d4e068d110ca2ed903c1 (diff)
manual: cvs: document that a branch or a date can be used
Also instead of using the generic word "timestamp" use the word "tag". Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
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@@ -280,7 +280,9 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
Only anonymous pserver mode is supported.
+LIBFOO_SITE+ 'must' contain the source URL as well as the remote
repository directory. The module is the package name.
- +LIBFOO_VERSION+ is 'mandatory' and 'must' be a timestamp.
+ +LIBFOO_VERSION+ is 'mandatory' and 'must' be a tag, a branch, or
+ a date (e.g. "2014-10-20", "2014-10-20 13:45", "2014-10-20
+ 13:45+01" see "man cvs" for further details).
** +git+ for retrieving source code from a Git repository. Used by
default when +LIBFOO_SITE+ begins with +git://+. The downloaded
source code is cached as with the +svn+