15834 2025-04-17 07:18:47 +0000 Building documentation from a release tarball fails 2026-02-13 09:14:47 +0000 1 1 9 Documentation General Docs docs-general unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium normal 6.0 M4 1 antonin.godard antonin.godard --- --- Yes (doc changes required) oldest_to_newest 101663 0 antonin.godard 2025-04-17 07:18:47 +0000 When building from a release tarball (for example from https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-5.1/poky-8f01ae5c7cba251ed25c80f0141a950ebc8a5f73.tar.bz2), going in poky/documentation and running `make html` prints: ./set_versions.py Please run 'git fetch --tags' before building the documentation make: *** [Makefile:72: html] Error 1 Because our build scripts rely on Git to build the documentation. NB: The bitbake documentation does not have that problem. 101671 1 antonin.godard 2025-04-17 14:49:20 +0000 After triage meeting we decided to not support building the docs from tarballs, but make the build print a message saying we don't support building without a Git repo. 104289 2 antonin.godard 2026-02-13 09:14:47 +0000 We now explicitly say that we don't support building without Git: https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/commit/?id=f40dc0b42e5e66c5b4618063f8fea72e9f8e4d7c Moving to Resolved Fixed.