Bitbake: How to only fetch the sources?

Question

There is a project in which we use project yocto, and our metas fetch source from some remote git repositories.

The problem is that these repositories are only accessible in some particular situations/specific times.

Therefore, I need a way to fetch the repos (when they are available), as to have them locally, but not build anything at that time.

Is this possible?

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 25 '20 at 13:11

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Starting from Yocto 2.5, it has changed:

 bitbake <target> --runall=fetch

Previously it was:

bitbake <target> -c fetchall

edited Mar 25 '20 at 13:11

Florian Berndl

answered Jan 07 '19 at 16:48

Alexander Kanavin

That is what I was afraid off :) Also, Yocto 2.5 is confusing, see this table to work out when the change occurred: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases – balister Jan 07 '19 at 17:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 25 '20 at 10:59

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Try bitbake -c fetchall <target>

It might help to add:

BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"

to local.conf, which generates tarballs for all fetched sources which aren't already an archive.

edited Mar 25 '20 at 10:59

Florian Berndl

answered Jan 07 '19 at 16:40

balister

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