| Message ID | 9c2b4c83-b40a-4f21-1680-e95a9e238a82@crashcourse.ca |
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| State | Under Review |
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| Series | dev-manual: correct statement that source is always tarballs | expand |
Hi Robert, On 6/22/25 4:50 PM, Robert P. J. Day via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > > It's misleading to suggest that source is always fetched as tarballs. > Seems like a reasonable change to me, Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de> Thanks! Quentin
On Sun Jun 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > It's misleading to suggest that source is always fetched as tarballs. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> > > --- > > diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst > index a15f0a92c..2f8a68e20 100644 > --- a/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst > +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Efficiently Fetching Source Files During a Build > The OpenEmbedded build system works with source files located through > the :term:`SRC_URI` variable. When > you build something using BitBake, a big part of the operation is > -locating and downloading all the source tarballs. For images, > +locating and downloading all of the source. For images, This is also present slightly below, in the same document. Can you replace that occurence too? Also I would suggest "all of the source code" instead of "all of the source". Antonin
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst index a15f0a92c..2f8a68e20 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/efficiently-fetching-sources.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Efficiently Fetching Source Files During a Build The OpenEmbedded build system works with source files located through the :term:`SRC_URI` variable. When you build something using BitBake, a big part of the operation is -locating and downloading all the source tarballs. For images, +locating and downloading all of the source. For images, downloading all the source for various packages can take a significant amount of time.
It's misleading to suggest that source is always fetched as tarballs. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> ---