From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:25:29 +0100 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: <20061101172529.GK18267@aon.at> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:41:02AM -0600, Ashwin Bihari wrote: >On 11/1/06, MikeW wrote: >> >>Yes - I think my issue is that the downloads are held 'within' the >>buildroot >>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. The DL_DIR will only be deleted if it's "dl" (i.e. the default). Change it (via menuconfig; no need for an additional patch, it's already in there). You can "make dirclean" to clean everything but your .config and the stuff in your custom DL_DIR. HTH,