[Openembedded-users] Using OE Offline

[captain.deadly at gmail.com]

Hello all,
    just wondering why when I bitbake something and all the bb files are being 
processed the build system needs an internet connection or the build will 
fail. I have local copies of the source I'm trying to build but it'll never 
get past the preprocessing of recipes to get to the code. Is there any way 
that I can turn this off as I'd like to build packages when I'm offline. 
Obviously if I'm trying to build and have a dependency that requires a 
download then I'm blocked but that should not be the case.

Thanks for any pointers.