From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:19:16 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ref-manual: Edits to the "source" section of yp dev environment X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69b317f38a27c1f9e398838ca744082bb2c68bf9;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core-contrib.git 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 --- diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png b/documentation/ref-manual/figures/source-input.png index 33c1699dc56..a9a2d665275 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 ffc635a1ce1..e355217553a 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