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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: "Derek Atkins" <derek@ihtfp.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Buildroot: How to cache linux.git from different repos in a shared DL_DIR
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:18:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211110181813.7c78997e@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <209062b430ef017340a806c4a10e0b12.squirrel@mail2.ihtfp.org>

Hello Derek,

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:52:00 -0500
"Derek Atkins" <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:

> I have a question:  I am using a shared DL_DIR to build BuildRoot for
> multiple platforms, however two of my platforms are building a custom
> kernel from git, and each uses a *DIFFERENT* git repository for their
> repo.

That is not a problem at all. A single Git repository can contain
changes that come from multiple Git repositories, so there's absolutely
no problem with having a single $(DL_DIR)/linux/git/ repository storing
the Git commits/blobs coming from your kernel repositories A, B, C, D
and E if you have 5 different platforms with each Linux kernel code
hosted in its own repository.

> Needless to say, this does not work well, because there will be one,
> shared /DL/linux/git/ which is *assumed* to be the one and only repo... 
> And whichever one I build first will take that and cached it there, and
> then the second.... Not sure what happens, but it clearly can't cache two
> repos in to the same place.

Sure it can. It's exactly how Git works when you use multiple
"remotes". You fetch Git commits/blobs from different remote
repositories into a single local Git repository.

> Is there some configuration I can use to differentiate platformA from
> platformB in this case?

See above: not needed.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Thomas Petazzoni
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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