[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/5] pkg-download: allow ssh URLs

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Gilles, All,

On 2016-06-15 23:29 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix spake thusly:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:14:26PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Gilles, All,
> > 
> > On 2016-06-14 17:05 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix spake thusly:
> > > Use git when such an URL is met.
> > 
> > What about Hg URLs that can also start with 'ssh://' ?
> > 
> > I guess we should not try to be smart here, and let users specify the
> > method with the _SITE_METHOD variable.
> 
> Yeah, well, my initial patch proposed git+ssh:// and I was told that
> this was deprecated. The conversation lead to a dead-end with nobody
> giving me a clear indication of what I should propose.
> 
> So, let us go back to my initial need: have a package compiled based
> on a git over ssh URL. Now if you tell me that there is a way to do
> this without patching pkg-download.mk, I am all ears. I did not find
> any help on that in the documentation, do you have some pointers?

As far as I understand your requirements, you want to be able to write
either of:

    FOO_SITE = user at machine:path/to/repo.git
or
    FOO_SITE = ssh://user at machine/path/to/rpo.git

You just have to add:

    FOO_SITE_METHOD = git

See the manual, search for _SITE_METHOD: ;-)
    https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#generic-package-reference

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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