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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-09-18 12:35:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-09-22 12:20:48 +0100 |
| commit | 3fa6a307c3ceeab297dfb2f2fff23eba62f2216e (patch) | |
| tree | 58e39f7a507be26d7da44dd6af09bd8454acbda0 /documentation | |
| parent | d7f340a0e93043bedd79eaabd772c00c6e5e04d4 (diff) | |
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ref-manual: New BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS variable.
Fixes [YOCTO #5035]
Added a new glossary entry for BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS
and updated the DL_DIR entry to note the ability to get these
tarballs into DL_DIR. Cross-referenced the new variable
from DL_DIR as well.
(From yocto-docs rev: 361000877f2a13b13154e437a6c28839fa58cd5e)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 29 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 559010b..fe1c100 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -493,6 +493,19 @@ </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para> + Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the + <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link> + directory. + For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of + the Git repositories is not the default action by the + OpenEmbedded build system. + </para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm> <glossdef> <para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time. @@ -1283,8 +1296,20 @@ Core layer for images cannot be removed <filename>DL_DIR</filename> and the build system looks there first to find source tarballs. <note> - When wiping and rebuilding, you can preserve this - directory to speed up this part of subsequent builds. + <para> + When wiping and rebuilding, you can preserve this + directory to speed up this part of subsequent + builds. + </para> + + <para> + Also, by default, the <filename>DL_DIR</filename> + does not contain tarballs of Git directories. + However, you can instruct the build process to save + these tarballs to the directory by using the + <link linkend='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><filename>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</filename></link> + variable. + </para> </note> </para> |
