From patchwork Sun Jun 22 14:50:17 2025 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Robert P. J. Day" X-Patchwork-Id: 65439 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129C3C77B7F for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cpanel10.indieserve.net (cpanel10.indieserve.net [199.212.143.9]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.27406.1750603822694980816 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:50:22 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@crashcourse.ca header.s=default header.b=jrvVedFZ; spf=pass (domain: crashcourse.ca, ip: 199.212.143.9, mailfrom: rpjday@crashcourse.ca) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=crashcourse.ca; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Subject: To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=D4Iz8JOLM0Bx5bOOtmG/ZD6AMcreFznDptKIRZEQnGc=; b=jrvVedFZ1tidrgqmdMIVf5CKaK fjA4Yi9S4oJE+5MTfskx9fiR8kh/YJKiJRlgmbTyYfxjU4hcCUAXDya7MRkv7XvO6FR3cPqyb4WXK gpIHMwYfSpeo++bs06E1yKVrA6SV8tSUrLa9iVVmlQuLVmE/RcG1WZnf/ME+7OoW59XeqY1k02oQZ FhXy0klvbfdvJCP9V89g3PRmI+QuEck9/x2XZ2cu4MCo9kGhXhn7uvgdcdGwY+vGX3YVduzNTV7v+ /HGsOIBWfRlQ2zNNCIWz71ax5TV9FEIn6jh/lk6IuPdQZGc12FgzIvMgHq9/yMLiWNUZ/NIqCEa/E roQM3y6w==; Received: from pool-174-115-41-146.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.115.41.146]:41082 helo=asus) by cpanel10.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uTM1U-00000007rtW-1Ds7 for docs@lists.yoctoproject.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:50:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:50:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: YP docs mailing list Subject: [PATCH] dev-manual: correct statement that source is always tarballs Message-ID: <9c2b4c83-b40a-4f21-1680-e95a9e238a82@crashcourse.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel10.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel10.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel10.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:50:32 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/7141 It's misleading to suggest that source is always fetched as tarballs. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz 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.