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Various consistency and correctness improvements. Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
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Location of downloaded packages
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored in
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+DL_DIR+, which by default is the +dl+ directory. 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, you can make a copy of this directory.
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This will allow you to regenerate the toolchain and the target filesystem
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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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-----------------
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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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The download location can also be set in the +.config+ file, with the
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+BR2_DL_DIR+ option. This value is overridden by the +BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+
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environment variable.
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