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| author |   Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com> | 2021-09-08 10:50:03 +0200 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-09-08 15:55:10 +0100 |
| commit | c394f34437686c2f57a27f0c06d7aeb3268bfd41 (patch) | |
| tree | b99948bde2251a52ce341a1dd4550faa61d87e52 | |
| parent | ae24a0f2d2d8b4b5ec10efabd0e9362e560832ea (diff) | |
| download | bitbake-c394f34437686c2f57a27f0c06d7aeb3268bfd41.tar.gz | |
doc: bitbake-user-manual-fetching: S should be set to WORKDIR/git for git fetcher
Document that S has to be set to "${WORKDIR}/git" in order for the
recipe to work if the git fetcher is fetching the main source of code
for the recipe.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst index 40b245b6d..a944d0f78 100644 --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst @@ -441,6 +441,13 @@ Here are some example URLs:: .. note:: + When using ``git`` as the fetcher of the main source code of your software, + ``S`` should be set accordingly:: + + S = "${WORKDIR}/git" + +.. note:: + Specifying passwords directly in ``git://`` urls is not supported. There are several reasons: :term:`SRC_URI` is often written out to logs and other places, and that could easily leak passwords; it is also all too |