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

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

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> Robert, All,
>
> On 2015-04-16 09:17 -0400, Robert P. J. Day spake thusly:
> [--SNIP--]
> >   i know, i referred to that very config option in my original
> > posting. what i'm wondering is if that config option -- "Primary
> > download site" -- can be set to point at a local directory on my build
> > host that's already loaded with S/W tarballs i've built up over the
> > months for use with my OE and yocto builds.
> >
> >   the help for that option says only that, "Valid URIs are URIs
> > recognized by $(WGET) and scp URIs of the form
> > scp://[user@]host:path." last time i looked, wget doesn't support the
> > "file://" form of URI, so i can't use that.
> >
> >   is there a standard way to do this?
>
> Short answer: no.
>
> Long answer:
>
> BR2_DL_DIR is used both as a way to look for existing download, and as
> the location where new downloads will be stored.
>
> So, if you set (in the menuconfig or on the command line)
> BR2_DL_DIR=/path/to/your/local/cache it will be looked into for existing
> archives, and Buildroot will also store the ones it downlaods on its on
> there.
>
> If you really, really wish no to shared the download location, you could
> get to run a simple webserver locally that you would use as a primary.
> But then Buildroot would also store the archives it downloads from the
> primary in its own dl/ dir (hence duplication in that case).

  ok, that answers the question, thanks very much.

rday

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