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| author | Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> | 2020-06-23 13:33:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> | 2020-06-23 13:33:00 -0400 |
| commit | 24726b82425828fe9642650727d237bb3b6bc143 (patch) | |
| tree | 4393921bc7ddf4c0ae607e77a44b073f92e35c42 /static | |
| parent | f8fa4b5919a434a7da5db80361fcebea83645fa8 (diff) | |
explain manifests a bit more
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| -rw-r--r-- | static/build.html | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/static/build.html b/static/build.html index fe5c5db6..6bada980 100644 --- a/static/build.html +++ b/static/build.html @@ -1012,7 +1012,11 @@ rm android-cts-media-1.4.zip</pre> <p>The Android Open Source Project has branches and/or tags for the releases of many different components. There are tags and/or branches for the OS, device kernels, mainline components (APEX), the NDK, Android Studio, the platform-tools distribution - packages, the CTS, androidx components, etc.</p> + packages, the CTS, androidx components, etc. You should obtain the sources via + manifests using the repo tool, either using the manifest for a tag / branch in + platform/manifest.git or a manifest provided elsewhere. Different projects use + different subsets of the repositories. Many of the repositories only exist as an + archive for older releases and aren't referenced in current manifests.</p> <p>Some components don't have the infrastructure set up to generate and push their own branches and tags to AOSP. In other cases, it's simply not obvious to an outsider |