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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: git tarballs gone?
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On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:13 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I just noticed that with the new fetcher, git tarballs are
> no longer being created.
>    * Is this expected?
>    * Can it be [re]enabled?  This is a great help to me so I
>      can distribute pre-staged sources to my customers. Tarballs
>      are much more convenient than .git repositories.

Its expected, just set BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" in local.conf
to generate them if you need them. 

As standard the average user doesn't need/use/want them and the fetcher
no longer needs them so we don't generate them by default any more.

Cheers,

Richard