[poky] git tarballs gone?

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Feb 9 17:37:06 PST 2011


On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:13 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I just noticed that with the new fetcher, git tarballs are
> no longer being created.
>    * Is this expected?
>    * Can it be [re]enabled?  This is a great help to me so I
>      can distribute pre-staged sources to my customers. Tarballs
>      are much more convenient than .git repositories.

Its expected, just set BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" in local.conf
to generate them if you need them. 

As standard the average user doesn't need/use/want them and the fetcher
no longer needs them so we don't generate them by default any more.

Cheers,

Richard




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