[OE-core] what's the easiest way to download *all* recipe-referenced tarballs?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Saul Wold wrote:

> On 07/03/2012 08:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >    followup to once upon a time post of mine, i'm prepping to give a
> > tutorial in OE/yocto, and it would be nice if the client could, ahead
> > of time, set up a premirror of every conceivable tarball that is used
> > by any recipe in oe-core.
> >
> >    can that be done?  easily?  i can see configuring for a build,
> > selecting a MACHINE, then doing "bitbake -c fetchall world", or some
> > variation thereof.  but that would be MACHINE-specific.
> >
> We added a "universe" target for fetching and stats gathering, but
> it's not appropriate for building,

  that's fine, sounds like just what i'm after.

> it should get everthing, unless there is a MACHINE-specific variable
> in SRC_URI, which I don't think we have.

  so you're saying that the selection of MACHINE in local.conf
shouldn't make any difference, right?  great, i'll give it a shot.  uh
... any idea how much will be downloaded?  is there a list of the
resulting tarballs somewhere?

rday

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