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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2019-06-10 13:38:25 -0500 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-06-18 11:29:23 +0100 |
| commit | ab69e1917f1c56f99caed4001a7c2631ed0aba22 (patch) | |
| tree | a76796bb53f3d10b9d5ceeff3cce500586a8f959 /documentation | |
| parent | b0b59bd2b8e267fe582c603933051d12ba7eb381 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-ab69e1917f1c56f99caed4001a7c2631ed0aba22.tar.gz | |
overview-manual: Updated SCM section
Fixes [YOCTO #10098]
I updated the "Source Control Managers (Optional)" section
to reference the "Fetchers" section in the BB manuual.
(From yocto-docs rev: 0c014fba509d3ec28236e63a7bd2355b447c4acf)
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/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml index 8a1b38c87d..f085dd710d 100644 --- a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml +++ b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml @@ -924,17 +924,18 @@ <title>Source Control Managers (Optional)</title> <para> - Another place the build system can get source files from is - through a Source Control Manager (SCM) such as Git or - Subversion. + Another place from which the build system can get source + files is with + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#bb-fetchers'>fetchers</ulink> + employing various Source Control Managers (SCMs) such as + Git or Subversion. In such cases, a repository is cloned or checked out. The <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-fetch'><filename>do_fetch</filename></ulink> task inside BitBake uses the <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink> variable and the argument's prefix to determine the correct - <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#bb-fetchers'><filename>fetcher</filename></ulink> - module. + fetcher module. <note> For information on how to have the OpenEmbedded build system generate tarballs for Git repositories and place |