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

[Laszlo Papp]

OK, so the bugreport has to be changed to a documentation issue about it.
At least, reading the short bits about it that exist whispered that to me,
it would not be useful without a mirror.


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 12:10 +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Martin Jansa
> > <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:31:53AM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> >         > That does not mean bitbake cannot generate tarball out of
> >         the git
> >         > repository. In fact, it is relatively simple. ;-)
> >
> >         It does, all you need to do is enable
> >         BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS
> >
> > I am not using mirrors. I am simply pushing the downloads folder, etc
> > to the git repository "git add". It is as simply as that without an
> > explicit mirror set up and its maintenance.
>
> Regardless of whether you use mirrors or not, if you set
> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS it will create tarballs in DL_DIR of the git
> repositories. You can then stop trying to check in the /git/  and /git2/
> subdirectories of DL_DIR and some of your problems will likely go away.
>
> The reason this is not enabled by default is for performance reasons.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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