[PATCH] dev-manual: correct statement that source is always tarballs

[PATCH] dev-manual: correct statement that source is always tarballs

[Robert P. J. Day]

It's misleading to suggest that source is always fetched as tarballs.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

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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.

Re: [docs] [PATCH] dev-manual: correct statement that source is always tarballs

[Quentin Schulz]

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

Re: [docs] [PATCH] dev-manual: correct statement that source is always tarballs

[Antonin Godard]

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

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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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