diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'poky/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | poky/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml index 8a1b38c87d..f085dd710d 100644 --- a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml +++ b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml @@ -924,17 +924,18 @@ <title>Source Control Managers (Optional)</title> <para> - Another place the build system can get source files from is - through a Source Control Manager (SCM) such as Git or - Subversion. + Another place from which the build system can get source + files is with + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#bb-fetchers'>fetchers</ulink> + employing various Source Control Managers (SCMs) such as + Git or Subversion. In such cases, a repository is cloned or checked out. The <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-fetch'><filename>do_fetch</filename></ulink> task inside BitBake uses the <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink> variable and the argument's prefix to determine the correct - <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#bb-fetchers'><filename>fetcher</filename></ulink> - module. + fetcher module. <note> For information on how to have the OpenEmbedded build system generate tarballs for Git repositories and place |