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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2019-03-28 10:15:25 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-04-09 22:16:06 +0100 |
| commit | 5555841e5ecf4c45b6bc87e2a9534b7309fc7805 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a854442294f968761989665503b7b37154310f5 /documentation | |
| parent | 3c67567ece6d7bf712964f06e008abede96180bf (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-5555841e5ecf4c45b6bc87e2a9534b7309fc7805.tar.gz | |
ref-manual: Updated BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS
Updated the description to tell the user they can safely
clean up the DL_DIR after creating tarballs of the source
files from downloaded repos.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6aff69632ea3102b6389ea510e1e3fa5bf1c2123)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 6470c739c2..536bd15eaa 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -931,20 +931,21 @@ <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm> <info> - BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS[doc] = "Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the DL_DIR directory." + BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS[doc] = "Causes tarballs of the source control repositories to be placed in the DL_DIR directory." </info> <glossdef> <para role="glossdeffirst"> <!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> --> - Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the - Git metadata, to be placed in the + Causes tarballs of the source control repositories + (e.g. Git repositories), including metadata, to be placed + in the <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link> directory. </para> <para> For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of - the Git repositories is not the default action by the + these repositories is not the default action by the OpenEmbedded build system. <literallayout class='monospaced'> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" @@ -953,6 +954,13 @@ file in the <link linkend='build-directory'>Build Directory</link>. </para> + + <para> + Once you have the tarballs containing your source files, + you can clean up your <filename>DL_DIR</filename> + directory by deleting any Git or other source control + work directories. + </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> |