manual: various fixes

Various consistency and correctness improvements.

Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manual/download-location.txt b/docs/manual/download-location.txt
index 13e675cf4..4befe0a2a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/download-location.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/download-location.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 Location of downloaded packages
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-It might be useful to know that the various tarballs that are
-downloaded by the Makefiles are all stored in +DL_DIR+ which by
-default is the +dl+ directory. This is useful, for example, if you want
+The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored in
++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. This will allow you to regenerate the
-toolchain and the target filesystem with exactly the same versions.
+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.
 
 If you maintain several Buildroot trees, it might be better to have a
 shared download location. This can be accessed by creating a symbolic
@@ -26,3 +26,7 @@ should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+.
 -----------------
  $ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR <shared download location>
 -----------------
+
+The download location can also be set in the +.config+ file, with the
++BR2_DL_DIR+ option. This value is overridden by the +BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+
+environment variable.