These tarballs are retrieved by the Asterisk build process when it processes the "third-party" directory in the Asterisk source tree. The directory tree for this repo must be as described below.
<library>
<version>
<library>/<version>.tar.gz
MD5SUM.TXT
SHA256SUM.TXT
The third-party/<library>/Makefile.rules
file in the
Asterisk source tree contains links to these files.
Alternate or additional tarball file formats are
acceptable in the above directory tree as long as at
least the one expected by Makefile.rules exists.