From 8850c522172acc6586c32a30f2dee79501293636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 04:42:33 +0000 Subject: docs/manual: do not suggest to create a symlink for shared download directory Creating a symbolic link for the download directory is really not a useful suggestion, since we have the much better solution of the BUILDROOT_DL_DIR environment variable. So emphasize this solution instead, and remove the suggestion of the symbolic link. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Samuel Martin Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- docs/manual/download-location.txt | 23 ++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/manual') diff --git a/docs/manual/download-location.txt b/docs/manual/download-location.txt index 4befe0a2a..36a13562e 100644 --- a/docs/manual/download-location.txt +++ b/docs/manual/download-location.txt @@ -3,25 +3,18 @@ Location of downloaded packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored in -+DL_DIR+, which by default is the +dl+ directory. If you want +The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored +in +BR2_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, 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. +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 -link from the +dl+ directory to the shared download location: - ------------------ - $ ln -s dl ------------------ - -Another way of accessing a shared download location is to create the -+BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable. If this is set, then the -value of DL_DIR in the project is overridden. The following line -should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+. +shared download location. This can be achieved by pointing the ++BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable to a directory. If this is +set, then the value of +BR2_DL_DIR+ in the Buildroot configuration is +overridden. The following line should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+. ----------------- $ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR -- cgit v1.2.3