ref-manual: Added more detail to BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS variable.

Fixes [YOCTO #5684]

Added a clause to note that the tarballs saved to the DL_DIR area
include the Git metadata.

Reported-by: Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org>
(From yocto-docs rev: 76cbb8a149b9fda6879f9dfc6a17dab992325e94)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark 2013-12-23 13:33:30 -06:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the
Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the
Git metadata, to be placed in the
<link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link>
directory.
</para>
<para>
For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of
the Git repositories is not the default action by the
OpenEmbedded build system.