[oe] How to prevent fetching?

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:25 -0600, Dave Beal wrote:
> My company is using OE to develop the embedded Linux infrastructure of a
> medical device.  The US government agency that approves such devices
> (FDA) requires that its source code be strictly controlled.  We would
> like to configure our OE installation to prevent the fetching of new
> source code except when we explicitly allow it.
> 
> Is there a way to accomplish this that doesn't require modifying all the
> individual .bb files?  Is there a global configuration option that would
> prevent fetching?  I've looked through the OE and Bitbake User Manuals,
> but haven't found an answer.

If you're using relatively recent BitBake and your metadata uses fetch2
(I don't know if oe.dev does, but oe-core is using fetch2) you can set
BB_NO_NETWORK="1" in a conf file somewhere.

Regards,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre