From 69b317f38a27c1f9e398838ca744082bb2c68bf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:19:16 +0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png | Bin 41019 -> 40935 bytes documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | 16 +++++++++------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png b/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png index 33c1699dc5..a9a2d66527 100644 Binary files a/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png and b/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png differ 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 @@ A good method for using a download directory is to have DL_DIR point to an area outside of your Build Directory. - Doing so allows you to safely delete the Build Directory's - /work/tmp directory if needed without fear - of removing any downloaded source file. + Doing so allows you to safely delete the Build Directory + if needed without fear of removing any downloaded source file. @@ -675,7 +674,7 @@ Local projects are custom bits of software the user provides. These bits reside somewhere local to a project - perhaps a directory into which the user checks in items (e.g. - a local directory that contains tarballs or repositories + a local directory containing a development source tree used by the group). @@ -684,11 +683,10 @@ is to use the externalsrc.bbclass class to include local project. - You use a recipe's append file to override or instruct the + You use either the local.conf or a + recipe's append file to override or set the recipe to point to the local directory on your disk to pull in the whole source tree. - Should you ever need to override that, you can use the - Build Directory's local.conf file. @@ -725,6 +723,10 @@ Two kinds of mirrors exist: pre-mirrors and regular mirrors. + The PREMIRRORS + and + MIRRORS + variables point to these, respectively. BitBake checks pre-mirrors before looking upstream for any source files. Pre-mirrors are appropriate when you have a shared directory -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf