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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-07-17 18:19:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-08-13 13:18:41 +0100 |
| commit | 69b317f38a27c1f9e398838ca744082bb2c68bf9 (patch) | |
| tree | 79197e58918c4a15f215570448d676641717b6b4 /documentation | |
| parent | dc7f6e7d3002632245bfcc7e0a126f2179732292 (diff) | |
| download | poky-69b317f38a27c1f9e398838ca744082bb2c68bf9.tar.gz | |
ref-manual: Edits to the "source" section of yp dev environment
Fixes [YOCTO #2808]
I updated the "Sources" section with review comments from
Paul. The figure needed changed as well as some text changes.
(From yocto-docs rev: 0a44dbdebce50fb599b8dcb2f17adc76f9fb862c)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png | bin | 41019 -> 40935 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | 16 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png b/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png index 33c1699dc5..a9a2d66527 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png | |||
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml index ffc635a1ce..e355217553 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | |||
| @@ -641,9 +641,8 @@ | |||
| 641 | A good method for using a download directory is to have | 641 | A good method for using a download directory is to have |
| 642 | <filename>DL_DIR</filename> point to an area outside of your | 642 | <filename>DL_DIR</filename> point to an area outside of your |
| 643 | Build Directory. | 643 | Build Directory. |
| 644 | Doing so allows you to safely delete the Build Directory's | 644 | Doing so allows you to safely delete the Build Directory |
| 645 | <filename>/work/tmp</filename> directory if needed without fear | 645 | if needed without fear of removing any downloaded source file. |
| 646 | of removing any downloaded source file. | ||
| 647 | </para> | 646 | </para> |
| 648 | 647 | ||
| 649 | <para> | 648 | <para> |
| @@ -675,7 +674,7 @@ | |||
| 675 | Local projects are custom bits of software the user provides. | 674 | Local projects are custom bits of software the user provides. |
| 676 | These bits reside somewhere local to a project - perhaps | 675 | These bits reside somewhere local to a project - perhaps |
| 677 | a directory into which the user checks in items (e.g. | 676 | a directory into which the user checks in items (e.g. |
| 678 | a local directory that contains tarballs or repositories | 677 | a local directory containing a development source tree |
| 679 | used by the group). | 678 | used by the group). |
| 680 | </para> | 679 | </para> |
| 681 | 680 | ||
| @@ -684,11 +683,10 @@ | |||
| 684 | is to use the | 683 | is to use the |
| 685 | <link linkend='ref-classes-externalsrc'><filename>externalsrc.bbclass</filename></link> | 684 | <link linkend='ref-classes-externalsrc'><filename>externalsrc.bbclass</filename></link> |
| 686 | class to include local project. | 685 | class to include local project. |
| 687 | You use a recipe's append file to override or instruct the | 686 | You use either the <filename>local.conf</filename> or a |
| 687 | recipe's append file to override or set the | ||
| 688 | recipe to point to the local directory on your disk to pull | 688 | recipe to point to the local directory on your disk to pull |
| 689 | in the whole source tree. | 689 | in the whole source tree. |
| 690 | Should you ever need to override that, you can use the | ||
| 691 | Build Directory's <filename>local.conf</filename> file. | ||
| 692 | </para> | 690 | </para> |
| 693 | 691 | ||
| 694 | <para> | 692 | <para> |
| @@ -725,6 +723,10 @@ | |||
| 725 | 723 | ||
| 726 | <para> | 724 | <para> |
| 727 | Two kinds of mirrors exist: pre-mirrors and regular mirrors. | 725 | Two kinds of mirrors exist: pre-mirrors and regular mirrors. |
| 726 | The <link linkend='var-PREMIRRORS'><filename>PREMIRRORS</filename></link> | ||
| 727 | and | ||
| 728 | <link linkend='var-MIRRORS'><filename>MIRRORS</filename></link> | ||
| 729 | variables point to these, respectively. | ||
| 728 | BitBake checks pre-mirrors before looking upstream for any | 730 | BitBake checks pre-mirrors before looking upstream for any |
| 729 | source files. | 731 | source files. |
| 730 | Pre-mirrors are appropriate when you have a shared directory | 732 | Pre-mirrors are appropriate when you have a shared directory |
