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authorMikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@linux.intel.com>2017-10-06 11:47:35 +0300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-10-06 12:05:56 +0100
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parentfa767d85f19a7af92a44fe11fdfb38633009ad71 (diff)
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bitbake-user-manual: add more gitsm fetcher limitations
The submodule sources fetched by the gitsm fetcher are not automatically tracked by the licensing and archiver infrastructures. Add these limitations to the existing 'warnings' sections for gitsm. [YOCTO #11594] Signed-off-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml
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--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml
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@@ -620,7 +620,9 @@
The Git Submodules fetcher is not a complete fetcher
implementation.
The fetcher has known issues where it does not use the
- normal source mirroring infrastructure properly.
+ normal source mirroring infrastructure properly. Further,
+ the submodule sources it fetches are not visible to the
+ licensing and source archiving infrastructures.
</para>
</note>
</para>