On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2016-08-16 18:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 16, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Patrick Doyle wrote: > > > > > > > > > As I am playing with several different Yocto/OE projects, I thought > > > > > it would be nice to set up a global downloads directory. > > > > > > > > > > Also, being a somewhat forgetful sort, I thought it would be nice if > > > > > I could set DL_DIR in my .bashrc and not have to remember to edit > > > > > conf/local.conf each time I follow the directions from a third party > > > > > site to set up their Yocto based distribution. > > > > > > > > > > Can I do this? If so, how? > > > > > > > > if you're talking about creating a local source mirror for tarballs > > > > to be shared across multiple projects, i taught an OE/YP course last > > > > week based on a digi ConnectCore 6 dev kit, and i wrote some wiki > > > > pages for it, including this one: > > > > > > > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/CC6_local_source_mirror > > > > > > a small nit, perhaps its better to use rsync instead of cp. > > > > good point, i will adjust that later. anything else i overlooked? > > I use the attached script to manage my download mirror...
well, *that* escalated quickly. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto