[Buildroot] how to point at a local archive of S/W tarballs?

[Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Samuel Martin wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   [apologies if you've seen this before -- i posted it yesterday but
> > it doesn't seem to show up in the ML archives.]
> >
> >   if i'm starting a new build, how can i take advantage of the
> > gigabytes of S/W tarballs i've collected for doing OE/yocto project
> > builds?
> >
> >   i want to set the equivalent of a local mirror -- would i set a
> > value in the "Primary download site" config option, with the format
> > "file:///pathname/to/all/my/tarballs"?
>
> You certainly want to set BR2_DL_DIR [1].
>
> [1] http://nightly.buildroot.org/#env-vars

  i'm not convinced that's what i want ... AIUI, that variable defines
where the downloaded SW tarballs will be *placed*, and i'm happy to
leave that where it is as a local dl/ directory for the build.

  what i want is to define a local (on-host) mirror for tarballs that
will be searched before going out to the net. i definitely don't want
the fetch process to try to *place* anything in that local mirror,
only to *fetch* from it.

rday

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