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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2012-12-29 04:42:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> | 2012-12-29 22:42:41 +0100 |
| commit | 8850c522172acc6586c32a30f2dee79501293636 (patch) | |
| tree | 542a80245a7e246a6723c3d2fe1a0e9c033f88e8 /docs/manual | |
| parent | 961cc7a497b6d3eba422b6a05c442d864ab65a60 (diff) | |
docs/manual: do not suggest to create a symlink for shared download directory
Creating a symbolic link for the download directory is really not a
useful suggestion, since we have the much better solution of the
BUILDROOT_DL_DIR environment variable. So emphasize this solution
instead, and remove the suggestion of the symbolic link.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/download-location.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/download-location.txt b/docs/manual/download-location.txt index 4befe0a2a..36a13562e 100644 --- a/docs/manual/download-location.txt +++ b/docs/manual/download-location.txt @@ -3,25 +3,18 @@ Location of downloaded packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored in -+DL_DIR+, which by default is the +dl+ directory. If you want +The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored +in +BR2_DL_DIR+, which by default is the +dl+ directory. If you want to keep a complete version of Buildroot which is known to be working with the associated tarballs, you can make a copy of this directory. -This will allow you to regenerate the toolchain and the target filesystem -with exactly the same versions. +This will allow you to regenerate the toolchain and the target +filesystem with exactly the same versions. If you maintain several Buildroot trees, it might be better to have a -shared download location. This can be accessed by creating a symbolic -link from the +dl+ directory to the shared download location: - ------------------ - $ ln -s <shared download location> dl ------------------ - -Another way of accessing a shared download location is to create the -+BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable. If this is set, then the -value of DL_DIR in the project is overridden. The following line -should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+. +shared download location. This can be achieved by pointing the ++BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable to a directory. If this is +set, then the value of +BR2_DL_DIR+ in the Buildroot configuration is +overridden. The following line should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+. ----------------- $ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR <shared download location> |