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authorGravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>2015-09-23 13:30:50 +0000
committerGravatar Philipp Wollermann <philwo@google.com>2015-09-24 14:15:30 +0000
commitffdf67563e87f37f58d2197cc924f0e62d1f9840 (patch)
tree0394dfd36ffea869b5f896b264d328dc2a71f7cc /src
parent98235e3053b02ed1a8a48e43d8c3fde1ae57b5f6 (diff)
Update doc for [new_]http_archive to mention tarballs.
-- Change-Id: Ib1270d1bbd549de96e7b82f8e674f6d67df8f450 Reviewed-on: https://bazel-review.googlesource.com/#/c/2020 MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=103740143
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/HttpArchiveRule.java9
-rw-r--r--src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/NewHttpArchiveRule.java3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/HttpArchiveRule.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/HttpArchiveRule.java
index b09fa3f8f8..86ec96afcf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/HttpArchiveRule.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/HttpArchiveRule.java
@@ -76,10 +76,13 @@ public class HttpArchiveRule implements RuleDefinition {
${ATTRIBUTE_SIGNATURE}
-<p>Downloads a Bazel repository as a compressed archive file, decompresses it, and makes its
- targets available for binding.</p>
+<p>Downloads a Bazel repository as a compressed archive file,
+ decompresses it, and makes its targets available for binding. The
+ repository should already contain a BUILD file. If it does not, use
+ <a href="#new_http_archive">new_http_archive</a> instead.</p>
-<p>Only Zip-formatted archives with the .zip extension are supported.</p>
+<p>It supports Zip-formatted archives (with the .zip extension) and
+tarballs (.tar.gz and .tgz extensions).</p>
${ATTRIBUTE_DEFINITION}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/NewHttpArchiveRule.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/NewHttpArchiveRule.java
index bc5ebd0ed0..8f06057c45 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/NewHttpArchiveRule.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/workspace/NewHttpArchiveRule.java
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ ${ATTRIBUTE_SIGNATURE}
<p>Downloads a compressed archive file, decompresses it, and creates a Bazel repository by
combining the archive with the provided BUILD file.</p>
-<p>Only Zip-formatted archives with the .zip extension are supported.</p>
+<p>It supports Zip-formatted archives (with the .zip extension) and
+tarballs (.tar.gz and .tgz extensions).</p>
${ATTRIBUTE_DEFINITION}