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bitbake: bitbake-user-manual: add more gitsm fetcher limitations
authorMikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 6 Oct 2017 08:47:35 +0000 (11:47 +0300)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:20:41 +0000 (23:20 +0100)
The submodule sources fetched by the gitsm fetcher are not automatically
tracked by the licensing and archiver infrastructures.

Add these limitations to the existing 'warnings' sections for
gitsm.

[YOCTO #11594]

(Bitbake rev: ca10186d60a52af6464bd998fa0b7146513bed0e)

Signed-off-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml

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                         The Git Submodules fetcher is not a complete fetcher
                         implementation.
                         The fetcher has known issues where it does not use the
-                        normal source mirroring infrastructure properly.
+                        normal source mirroring infrastructure properly. Further,
+                        the submodule sources it fetches are not visible to the
+                        licensing and source archiving infrastructures.
                     </para>
                 </note>
             </para>