From 5555841e5ecf4c45b6bc87e2a9534b7309fc7805 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:15:25 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 6470c739c2..536bd15eaa 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -931,20 +931,21 @@ BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS - BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS[doc] = "Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the DL_DIR directory." + BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS[doc] = "Causes tarballs of the source control repositories to be placed in the DL_DIR directory." - Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the - Git metadata, to be placed in the + Causes tarballs of the source control repositories + (e.g. Git repositories), including metadata, to be placed + in the DL_DIR directory. For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of - the Git repositories is not the default action by the + these repositories is not the default action by the OpenEmbedded build system. BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" @@ -953,6 +954,13 @@ file in the Build Directory. + + + Once you have the tarballs containing your source files, + you can clean up your DL_DIR + directory by deleting any Git or other source control + work directories. + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf