[yocto] How to maintain a global DL_DIR?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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

that explains how to create a globally accessible directory full of
tarballs, how to configure each new project to look there first, and
there's even a script so that, if a new project *does* have to
download a bit of stuff that's not in your local source mirror, you
can run that script from the downloads/ directory, and it will copy
all the newly-downloaded stuff into your local source mirror.

  let me know if anything on that page is unclear.

rday

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