From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Lindahl Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:17:14 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] Persistent tarball repository In-Reply-To: <1f11a5490611010841n3a71baeei8d55aa4dc7251330@mail.gmail.com> References: <1162394701.2945.4.camel@iridium.gnat.ca> <1f11a5490611010801o629294ffw7cde4e3f98778d16@mail.gmail.com> <1f11a5490611010841n3a71baeei8d55aa4dc7251330@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1a2b58b88744ef4e337f310b1b5b0c3a@bowery.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net BR2_DL_DIR already there no patch needed... why do you need to move it around so much it needs to be in menuconfig? also I disagree with patching distclean, then it will not behave the way all other distcleans everywhere behave. Make a new option instead (though for the life of me I can't figure out what you'd need it for) my $0.02, Marc On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Ashwin Bihari wrote: > On 11/1/06, MikeW wrote: >> >> tree, hence the semantics of distclean as you describe them mean that >> they >> must go. >> >> If they were outside the buildroot tree, then I guess distclean ought >> not >> to clear them out. >> >> Wonder if that's the making of a patch - only 'distclean' delete >> downloaded tarballs if they occur under the buildroot directory; >> but currently there's no menuconfig option to say where downloads are >> kept ... >> however at the moment I just want something that 'works out of the >> box'! >> >> Thanks, >> MikeW > > Mike, > > By all means provide a patch that allows you to change the location of > the DL directory and whether or not it should be deleted during a > distclean. I would definitely find it useful and if others agree, it > might get committed. > > Regards > > -- > ~ Ashwin_______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot at uclibc.org > http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1438 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://busybox.net/lists/buildroot/attachments/20061101/38ba48dd/attachment.bin