Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   "make menuconfig" is a bit confusing when it comes to distinguishing
> between "Local mirror for source packages" and "Download folder".  if
> i have an independent, out-of-tree directory that's already full of
> tarballs that i can use when building my own images, i typically set
> the config variable "DOWNLOAD_FOLDER" to that directory name and it
> works fine.
> 
>   so what is the purpose of the config variable LOCALMIRROR?  thanks.

if you have a web/ftp-server hosting the tarballs, openwrt will try this
one before trying to download from the location mentioned in the Makefiles

        harald


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