[poky] git tarballs gone?

[Gary Thomas]

On 02/09/2011 06:37 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

What would I need to do to get them generated?  Here's what I
tried (which did not work):

* I noticed that my build used git.pokylinux.org.matchbox-terminal, so

... set BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS in local.conf
% bitbake matchbox-terminal -c clean
% rm -f sstate-cache/*matchbox-terminal*
% bitbake matchbox-terminal

It seemed happy to use the stored GIT in downloads/git2/git.pokylinux.org.matchbox-terminal,
but did not generate a tarball during the process.

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