From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Buildroot] how to point at a local archive of S/W tarballs? In-Reply-To: <20150416170525.GA4405@free.fr> References: <20150416170525.GA4405@free.fr> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================