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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-07-27 08:16:48 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-04 15:06:45 +0100
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documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-bsp-appendix.xml: Modified the setup section.
(From yocto-docs rev: 78224ffa3cfd5e110a2d2e43e8c84b259a84ee63) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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18 </itemizedlist> 18 </itemizedlist>
19</para> 19</para>
20 20
21<section id='setting-up-yocto-project-app'> 21<section id='getting-local-yocto-project-files-and-bsp-files'>
22 <title>Setting Up Yocto Project</title> 22 <title>Getting Local Yocto Project Files and BSP Files</title>
23 23
24 <para> 24 <para>
25 You need to have the Yocto Project files available on your host system. 25 You need to have the Yocto Project files available on your host system.
26 You can get files through tarball extraction or by cloning the <filename>poky</filename> 26 You can get files through tarball extraction or by cloning the <filename>poky</filename>
27 Git repository. 27 Git repository.
28 Typically, cloning the Git repository is the method to use. 28 See the <xref linkend='getting-setup'>Getting Setup</xref> earlier in this manual
29 This allows you to maintain a complete history of changes and facilitates you 29 for information on how to get these files.
30 contributing back to the Yocto Project.
31 However, if you just want a hierarchical file structure that contains the recipes
32 and metadata that let you develop you can download tarballs from the
33 <ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/download'>download page</ulink>.
34 </para>
35
36 <para>
37 Regardless of the method you use this manual will refer to the resulting
38 hierarchical set of files as "the local Yocto Project files."
39 </para>
40
41 <para>
42 [WRITER'S NOTE: I need to substitute correct and actual filenames for the
43 1.1 release throughout this example once they become available.]
44 </para>
45
46 <para>
47 If you download a tarball you can extract it into any directory you want using the
48 tar command.
49 For example, the following command extracts the Yocto Project 1.1 release tarball
50 into the current working directory and sets up a file structure whose top-level
51 directory is named <filename>poky-1.1</filename>:
52 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
53 $ tar xfj poky-1.1.tar.bz2
54 </literallayout>
55 </para>
56
57 <para>
58 The following transcript shows how to clone the <filename>poky</filename> Git repository
59 into the current working directory.
60 The command creates the repository in a directory named <filename>poky</filename>:
61 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
62 $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
63 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/scottrif/poky/.git/
64 remote: Counting objects: 107624, done.
65 remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37128/37128), done.
66 remote: Total 107624 (delta 73393), reused 99851 (delta 67287)
67 Receiving objects: 100% (107624/107624), 69.74 MiB | 483 KiB/s, done.
68 Resolving deltas: 100% (73393/73393), done.
69 </literallayout>
70 </para> 30 </para>
71 31
72 <para> 32 <para>