Re: Why is "bitbake core-image-minimal" building gtk docs?

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:31:53AM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 21 August 2013 11:24, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I am not saying to fix gtk-doc-stub only. I am saying fix the nastiness
> >> of using git repositories for released and supposedly stable versions. I do
> >> not see why tarball would not be enough for those to work off-hand? That
> >> should be the ideal architecture IMHO.
> >>
> >
> > Two good reasons to allow git repositories as a source:
> >
> > 1) Many projects don't make tarball releases.
> >
> 
> 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

Versioned tarballs are already tracked by
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511

> > 2) It's incredibly useful to be able to build from git snapshots for
> > development/testing purposes.
> >
> 
> I was explicitly mentioning stable and official released variants.
> 
> What you're asking for is the inability to use git repositories in SRC_URI,
> > which won't happen.
> >
> 
> No, that is not what I am asking.
> 
> Here you can find the feature request:
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5035
> 
> Cheers, L.

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