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ref-manual: Updated BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS

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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>
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Scott Rifenbark
2019-03-28 10:15:25 -07:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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@@ -931,20 +931,21 @@
<glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm> <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm>
<info> <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> </info>
<glossdef> <glossdef>
<para role="glossdeffirst"> <para role="glossdeffirst">
<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> --> <!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the Causes tarballs of the source control repositories
Git metadata, to be placed in the (e.g. Git repositories), including metadata, to be placed
in the
<link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link> <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link>
directory. directory.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of 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. OpenEmbedded build system.
<literallayout class='monospaced'> <literallayout class='monospaced'>
BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
@@ -953,6 +954,13 @@
file in the file in the
<link linkend='build-directory'>Build Directory</link>. <link linkend='build-directory'>Build Directory</link>.
</para> </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> </glossdef>
</glossentry> </glossentry>