OK, so the bugreport has to be changed to a documentation issue about it. At least, reading the short bits about it that exist whispered that to me, it would not be useful without a mirror.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Richard Purdie < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 12:10 +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Martin Jansa > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:31:53AM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote: > > > That does not mean bitbake cannot generate tarball out of > > the git > > > repository. In fact, it is relatively simple. ;-) > > > > It does, all you need to do is enable > > BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS > > > > I am not using mirrors. I am simply pushing the downloads folder, etc > > to the git repository "git add". It is as simply as that without an > > explicit mirror set up and its maintenance. > > Regardless of whether you use mirrors or not, if you set > BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS it will create tarballs in DL_DIR of the git > repositories. You can then stop trying to check in the /git/ and /git2/ > subdirectories of DL_DIR and some of your problems will likely go away. > > The reason this is not enabled by default is for performance reasons. > > Cheers, > > Richard > >
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