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@@ -493,6 +493,19 @@
493 </glossdef> 493 </glossdef>
494 </glossentry> 494 </glossentry>
495 495
496 <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm>
497 <glossdef>
498 <para>
499 Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the
500 <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link>
501 directory.
502 For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of
503 the Git repositories is not the default action by the
504 OpenEmbedded build system.
505 </para>
506 </glossdef>
507 </glossentry>
508
496 <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm> 509 <glossentry id='var-BB_NUMBER_THREADS'><glossterm>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</glossterm>
497 <glossdef> 510 <glossdef>
498 <para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time. 511 <para>The maximum number of tasks BitBake should run in parallel at any one time.
@@ -1283,8 +1296,20 @@ Core layer for images cannot be removed
1283 <filename>DL_DIR</filename> and the build system looks there 1296 <filename>DL_DIR</filename> and the build system looks there
1284 first to find source tarballs. 1297 first to find source tarballs.
1285 <note> 1298 <note>
1286 When wiping and rebuilding, you can preserve this 1299 <para>
1287 directory to speed up this part of subsequent builds. 1300 When wiping and rebuilding, you can preserve this
1301 directory to speed up this part of subsequent
1302 builds.
1303 </para>
1304
1305 <para>
1306 Also, by default, the <filename>DL_DIR</filename>
1307 does not contain tarballs of Git directories.
1308 However, you can instruct the build process to save
1309 these tarballs to the directory by using the
1310 <link linkend='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><filename>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</filename></link>
1311 variable.
1312 </para>
1288 </note> 1313 </note>
1289 </para> 1314 </para>
1290 1315