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Location of downloaded packages
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It might be useful to know that the various tarballs that are
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downloaded by the Makefiles are all stored in the +DL_DIR+ which by
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default is the +dl+ directory. It's useful, for example, if you want
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to keep a complete version of Buildroot which is known to be working
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with the associated tarballs. This will allow you to regenerate the
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toolchain and the target filesystem with exactly the same versions.
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If you maintain several Buildroot trees, it might be better to have a
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shared download location. This can be accessed by creating a symbolic
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link from the +dl+ directory to the shared download location:
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$ ln -s <shared download location> dl
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Another way of accessing a shared download location is to create the
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+BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable. If this is set, then the
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value of DL_DIR in the project is overridden. The following line
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should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+.
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$ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR <shared download location>
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