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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2019-03-28 10:15:25 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2019-04-09 22:16:06 +0100
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ref-manual: Updated BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS
Updated the description to tell the user they can safely clean up the DL_DIR after creating tarballs of the source files from downloaded repos. (From yocto-docs rev: 6aff69632ea3102b6389ea510e1e3fa5bf1c2123) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.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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--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -931,20 +931,21 @@
931 931
932 <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm> 932 <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm>
933 <info> 933 <info>
934 BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS[doc] = "Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the DL_DIR directory." 934 BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS[doc] = "Causes tarballs of the source control repositories to be placed in the DL_DIR directory."
935 </info> 935 </info>
936 <glossdef> 936 <glossdef>
937 <para role="glossdeffirst"> 937 <para role="glossdeffirst">
938<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> --> 938<!-- <para role="glossdeffirst"><imagedata fileref="figures/define-generic.png" /> -->
939 Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the 939 Causes tarballs of the source control repositories
940 Git metadata, to be placed in the 940 (e.g. Git repositories), including metadata, to be placed
941 in the
941 <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link> 942 <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link>
942 directory. 943 directory.
943 </para> 944 </para>
944 945
945 <para> 946 <para>
946 For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of 947 For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of
947 the Git repositories is not the default action by the 948 these repositories is not the default action by the
948 OpenEmbedded build system. 949 OpenEmbedded build system.
949 <literallayout class='monospaced'> 950 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
950 BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" 951 BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
@@ -953,6 +954,13 @@
953 file in the 954 file in the
954 <link linkend='build-directory'>Build Directory</link>. 955 <link linkend='build-directory'>Build Directory</link>.
955 </para> 956 </para>
957
958 <para>
959 Once you have the tarballs containing your source files,
960 you can clean up your <filename>DL_DIR</filename>
961 directory by deleting any Git or other source control
962 work directories.
963 </para>
956 </glossdef> 964 </glossdef>
957 </glossentry> 965 </glossentry>
958 966