On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Harald Schiöberg wrote:
> 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
ah, so LOCALMIRROR should be a full URL, while DOWNLOAD_FOLDER
should simply be a local directory, is that it? and LOCALMIRROR takes
precedence over DOWNLOAD_FOLDER? that seems kind of strange since it
would seem more efficient to look locally before heading out onto the
network. in any event, that should probably be added to the help for
those options, since that's not at all obvious. well, ok, it wasn't
obvious to *me*.
rday
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