From 41c1cb44cd60819f8ba20024e23e431c00b279d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:46:39 +0200 Subject: manual: convert existing documentation to the asciidoc format Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- docs/manual/download-location.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/manual/download-location.txt (limited to 'docs/manual/download-location.txt') diff --git a/docs/manual/download-location.txt b/docs/manual/download-location.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb6147f2b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manual/download-location.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Location of downloaded packages +=============================== + +It might be useful to know that the various tarballs that are +downloaded by the Makefiles are all stored in the +DL_DIR+ which by +default is the +dl+ directory. It's useful, for example, 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. + +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>+. + +----------------- + $ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR +----------------- -- cgit v1.2.3