Openembedded Bitbake Development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: is there a bitbake command to *just* fetch all necessary packages?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:13:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDF99FB.2030503@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1sqTiss0-CgVj5U=uvkUcuhs0o+fA+n-GbOCi8VunA+qGw@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/18/12 4:08 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day<rpjday@crashcourse.ca>  wrote:
>>
>>   perhaps i'm just misreading the docs, but is there a bitbake
>> incantation that does *nothing* more than fetch the packages needed
>> for a target image?
>>
>>   if i use "bitbake -c fetchall", the result is not just to fetch the
>> source, but to unload and patch it as well.
>
> hmmm I thought it did just what it says 'fetch all' but as you say it
> seems to do more hmm I am not sure if its intended behavior

In order for fetchall to work, there are a few dependencies that have to be 
executed as well..

But bitbake -c fetchall <target>, will fetch everything needed for the <target> 
recipe.  It will extract and build only the items necessary for fetch to work 
properly.

--Mark


>   i don't want that, i want
>> whatever the magic is to just *fetch* and leave it at that.  or is
>> that simply not possible?
>>
>> rday
>>
>> --
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
>>                         http://crashcourse.ca
>>
>> Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
>> LinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
>> ========================================================================
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> bitbake-devel mailing list
>> bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel
> _______________________________________________
> bitbake-devel mailing list
> bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-devel




  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-18 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18 20:10 is there a bitbake command to *just* fetch all necessary packages? Robert P. J. Day
2012-06-18 21:08 ` Khem Raj
2012-06-18 21:13   ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2012-06-18 22:28     ` Richard Purdie

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4FDF99FB.2030503@windriver.com \
    --to=mark.hatle@windriver.com \
    --cc=bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox