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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2017-06-14 11:17:21 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-06-22 09:16:43 +0100
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documentation: Moved "Yocto Project Source Repositories" section
Fixes [YOCTO #11630] The "Yocto Project Source Repositories" section is purely conceptual and thus does not belong in the reconstituted dev-manual, which is converting to a "how-to" manual. I have moved this section to the ref-manual under "The Yocto Project Development Environment" section. Moving the section affected several things. Three figures that where in the dev-manual were copied and moved to the figures folder of the ref-manual. This required deleting them from the dev-manual and adding them to the ref-manual. The makefile had to be edited to move those figures into the ref-manual and delete them from the latest version of the dev-manual in order for the tarball of files to be correct when the manuals are made. Links to anchors within the moved section had to be fixed in various manuals. Links to the main section "id" had to be fixed to point to the ref-manual manual. (From yocto-docs rev: c619ae2bbc6be93cb0324ca44e936eefec12b28c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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</para>
</section>
+<section id='yocto-project-repositories'>
+ <title>Yocto Project Source Repositories</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The Yocto Project team maintains complete source repositories for all
+ Yocto Project files at
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit/cgit.cgi'></ulink>.
+ This web-based source code browser is organized into categories by
+ function such as IDE Plugins, Matchbox, Poky, Yocto Linux Kernel, and
+ so forth.
+ From the interface, you can click on any particular item in the "Name"
+ column and see the URL at the bottom of the page that you need to clone
+ a Git repository for that particular item.
+ Having a local Git repository of the
+ <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>, which is
+ usually named "poky", allows
+ you to make changes, contribute to the history, and ultimately enhance
+ the Yocto Project's tools, Board Support Packages, and so forth.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For any supported release of Yocto Project, you can also go to the
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink> and
+ select the "Downloads" tab and get a released tarball of the
+ <filename>poky</filename> repository or any supported BSP tarballs.
+ Unpacking these tarballs gives you a snapshot of the released
+ files.
+ <note><title>Notes</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ The recommended method for setting up the Yocto Project
+ <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>
+ and the files for supported BSPs
+ (e.g., <filename>meta-intel</filename>) is to use
+ <link linkend='git'>Git</link> to create a local copy of
+ the upstream repositories.
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Be sure to always work in matching branches for both
+ the selected BSP repository and the
+ <link linkend='source-directory'>Source Directory</link>
+ (i.e. <filename>poky</filename>) repository.
+ For example, if you have checked out the "master" branch
+ of <filename>poky</filename> and you are going to use
+ <filename>meta-intel</filename>, be sure to checkout the
+ "master" branch of <filename>meta-intel</filename>.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In summary, here is where you can get the project files needed for
+ development:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para id='source-repositories'>
+ <emphasis>
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;/cgit/cgit.cgi'>Source Repositories:</ulink>
+ </emphasis>
+ This area contains IDE Plugins, Matchbox, Poky, Poky Support,
+ Tools, Yocto Linux Kernel, and Yocto Metadata Layers.
+ You can create local copies of Git repositories for each of
+ these areas.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/source-repos.png" align="center" width="6in" depth="4in" />
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><anchor id='index-downloads' />
+ <emphasis>
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DL_URL;/releases/'>Index of /releases:</ulink>
+ </emphasis>
+ This is an index of releases such as
+ the <trademark class='trade'>Eclipse</trademark>
+ Yocto Plug-in, miscellaneous support, Poky, Pseudo, installers
+ for cross-development toolchains, and all released versions of
+ Yocto Project in the form of images or tarballs.
+ Downloading and extracting these files does not produce a local
+ copy of the Git repository but rather a snapshot of a
+ particular release or image.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/index-downloads.png" align="center" width="6in" depth="3.5in" />
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ <emphasis>"Downloads" page for the
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink>:
+ </emphasis>
+ Access this page by going to the website and then selecting
+ the "Downloads" tab.
+ This page allows you to download any Yocto Project
+ release or Board Support Package (BSP) in tarball form.
+ The tarballs are similar to those found in the
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DL_URL;/releases/'>Index of /releases:</ulink> area.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/yp-download.png" align="center" width="6in" depth="4in" />
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+</section>
+
<section id="development-concepts">
<title>Development Concepts</title>