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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-12-23 13:33:30 -0600 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-01-02 13:16:14 +0000 |
| commit | 4bd0d3156270b83205fa31c8351d6b022aa4431f (patch) | |
| tree | c531991dc68576bf92f6351a3b5e238ec54fd537 /documentation | |
| parent | eb77bc6ec322fdd9a2430952fc42e2af37283d6c (diff) | |
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ref-manual: Added more detail to BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS variable.
Fixes [YOCTO #5684]
Added a clause to note that the tarballs saved to the DL_DIR area
include the Git metadata.
Reported-by: Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org>
(From yocto-docs rev: 76cbb8a149b9fda6879f9dfc6a17dab992325e94)
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 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index b5c9548..da6ad82 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -525,9 +525,13 @@ <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 + Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the + Git 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 OpenEmbedded build system. |
