Buildroot packaging pretty much assumes that the sources it downloads
are publicly available. In general, however, Buildroot is also used to
download sources from private repositories. Nowadays, that mostly means
from a github or gitlab instance.
Although git-over-ssh can be used for that, this poses a problem for CI,
because the CI runners integrated with github and gitlab only have
access to the repository itself, not to other private repositories. And
creating ssh key pairs for CI runners is tricky.
Therefore, document how standard tools can be used to make private
repositories available both to developers and to CI. There are quite a
few alternative approaches possible, but they're more complicated or
less generically applicable.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@rnout.be>
[Peter: Fix insteadOf example, capitalize SSH/HTTPS]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Arnout Vandecappelle
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