[OE-core] Why is "bitbake core-image-minimal" building gtk docs?

[Laszlo Papp]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>wrote:

> On 21 August 2013 11:24, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> I am not saying to fix gtk-doc-stub only. I am saying fix the nastiness
>> of using git repositories for released and supposedly stable versions. I do
>> not see why tarball would not be enough for those to work off-hand? That
>> should be the ideal architecture IMHO.
>>
>
> Two good reasons to allow git repositories as a source:
>
> 1) Many projects don't make tarball releases.
>

That does not mean bitbake cannot generate tarball out of the git
repository. In fact, it is relatively simple. ;-)


> 2) It's incredibly useful to be able to build from git snapshots for
> development/testing purposes.
>

I was explicitly mentioning stable and official released variants.

What you're asking for is the inability to use git repositories in SRC_URI,
> which won't happen.
>

No, that is not what I am asking.

Here you can find the feature request:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5035

Cheers, L.
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