Another technique you can use to ready yourself for a
successive string of build operations, is to pre-fetch
all the source files without actually starting a build.
This technique lets you work through any download issues
and ultimately gathers all the source files into your
download directory
build/downloads
,
which is located with
DL_DIR
.
Use the following BitBake command form to fetch all the necessary sources without starting the build:
$ bitbake -c target
runall="fetch"
This variation of the BitBake command guarantees that you have all the sources for that BitBake target should you disconnect from the Internet and want to do the build later offline.