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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-11-11 07:06:52 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-03 12:53:56 +0000
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dev-manual: Reworded sentence for meta-intel setup
Changed wording to remove implications of meta-intel clone importance regarding working with BSPs. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> (From yocto-docs rev: c5f282e2b5f9931103fc4a1adafbf9c5becb0084) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Conflicts: documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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232 </literallayout> 232 </literallayout>
233 See the 233 See the
234 "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BSP_URL;#bsp-layers'>BSP Layers</ulink>" 234 "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BSP_URL;#bsp-layers'>BSP Layers</ulink>"
235 section in the Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide for more 235 section in the Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP)
236 information on BSP Layers. 236 Developer's Guide for more information on BSP Layers.</para>
237 <itemizedlist> 237 <para>You can locate the <filename>meta-intel</filename> Git
238 <listitem><para><emphasis>Tarball Extraction:</emphasis> You can download any released 238 repository in the "Yocto Metadata Layers" area of the Yocto
239 BSP tarball from the same "Downloads" page of the 239 Project Source Repositories at
240 <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink> 240 <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit.cgi'></ulink>.</para>
241 to get the Yocto Project release. 241 <para>Using
242 Once on the "Download" page, look to the right of the 242 <link linkend='git'>Git</link> to create a local clone of the
243 page and scroll down to find the BSP tarballs.</para> 243 upstream repository can be helpful if you are working with
244 <para>Once you have the tarball, just extract it into a directory of your choice. 244 BSPs.
245 Again, this method just produces a snapshot of the BSP layer in the form 245 Typically, you set up the <filename>meta-intel</filename>
246 of a hierarchical directory structure.</para></listitem> 246 Git repository inside the Source Directory.
247 <listitem><para><emphasis>Git Repository Method:</emphasis> If you are working 247 For example, the following transcript shows the steps to clone
248 with a local Git repository for your Source Directory, you should also use this method 248 <filename>meta-intel</filename>.
249 to set up the <filename>meta-intel</filename> Git repository. 249 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
250 You can locate the <filename>meta-intel</filename> Git repository in the
251 "Yocto Metadata Layers" area of the Yocto Project Source Repositories at
252 <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit.cgi'></ulink>.</para>
253 <para>Typically, you set up the <filename>meta-intel</filename> Git repository inside
254 the Source Directory.
255 For example, the following transcript shows the steps to clone the
256 <filename>meta-intel</filename>
257 Git repository inside the local <filename>poky</filename> Git repository.
258 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
259 $ cd ~/poky 250 $ cd ~/poky
260 $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel.git 251 $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-intel.git
261 Cloning into 'meta-intel'... 252 Cloning into 'meta-intel'...