support/download: alternative access methods to CVS

Allows user to specify other access methods than :pserver:anonymous@
on CVS repositories. This shall be defined in the <pkg>_SITE variable.

[Thomas:
 - as suggested by Yann, quote the variable expansion
 - as suggested by Yann, use a regexp match
 - tweak commit log]

Signed-off-by: Joao Mano <joao@datacom.ind.br>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Joao Mano
2016-01-15 18:13:15 -02:00
committed by Thomas Petazzoni
parent 544e2c5871
commit 4fad12598d
2 changed files with 13 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -279,7 +279,12 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
** +cvs+ for retrieving source code from a CVS repository.
Used by default when +LIBFOO_SITE+ begins with +cvs://+.
The downloaded source code is cached as with the +svn+ method.
Only anonymous pserver mode is supported.
Anonymous pserver mode is assumed otherwise explicitly defined
on +LIBFOO_SITE+. Both
+LIBFOO_SITE=cvs://libfoo.net:/cvsroot/libfoo+ and
+LIBFOO_SITE=cvs://:ext:libfoo.net:/cvsroot/libfoo+
are accepted, on the former anonymous pserver access mode is
assumed.
+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 tag, a branch, or