Hello all, I am looking for a tip how to make openembedded work with gentoo's portage in the field of downloaded source files. I am not sure how may OE uses use gentoo linux, so I will make some short introduction. >From my, user's point of view, gentoo's pakage management system works similar to OE - it takes care of dependencies, compiles packages from the source, and what is most important for this massage - downloads the souce files and checks the signatures.... The source files are kept in /usr/portage/distfiles/ dir which belongs to root. When OE builds a package it downloads the source file, compares its md5 sum and stores it in directory from the local.conf. Additional thing that OE does it leaves a footprint that a job of downloading a file has been done - by creating PACKAGE.do_fetch file in proper tmp/stamps/xxx/ directory. Without that file bitbake try's to fetch the source even it the file was already downloaded by bitbake. My question is - how to make OE work with files that were already downloaded (in this case by gentoo' portage) to: 1) save time/bandwidth, by not downloading the same files twice, 2) save space by keeping all the source files in one place ?
I would be grateful for some tips..... Regards, Michal _______________________________________________ Openembedded-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users
