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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2013-12-23 13:33:30 -0600
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-02 13:16:14 +0000
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ref-manual: Added more detail to BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS variable.
Fixes [YOCTO #5684] Added a clause to note that the tarballs saved to the DL_DIR area include the Git metadata. Reported-by: Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> (From yocto-docs rev: 76cbb8a149b9fda6879f9dfc6a17dab992325e94) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
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@@ -525,9 +525,13 @@
525 <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm> 525 <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm>
526 <glossdef> 526 <glossdef>
527 <para> 527 <para>
528 Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the 528 Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the
529 Git metadata, to be placed in the
529 <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link> 530 <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link>
530 directory. 531 directory.
532 </para>
533
534 <para>
531 For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of 535 For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of
532 the Git repositories is not the default action by the 536 the Git repositories is not the default action by the
533 OpenEmbedded build system. 537 OpenEmbedded build system.