From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:54:28 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 3] Add support for local package downloads (file://) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110315235428.1f50e78d@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:27:05 +0100 Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > This patch series add support for file:// URLs for both the package > infrastructure, as for the BR2_PRIMARY_SITE and BR2_BACKUP_SITE > options. URLs starting with file:// will be handled by a plain 'cp' > instead of wget. A new SITE_METHOD 'file' is added. Documentation is > updated as well. > > Note that this is mainly useful in situations where developers > working on a project are sharing the same filesystem (e.g. disk, > NFS, ...), as typically is the case in corporate environments. In > that case, one may add one or more local project-specific packages, > and even use a central storage location as 'proxy' for package > downloads (using BR2_PRIMARY_SITE with a file:// URL). > > Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire > I agree with the principle, I need to do a bit of testing before acking the patches. Thanks for this work! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com