[yocto] How to maintain a global DL_DIR?

[Khem Raj]

> On Aug 16, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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.

> 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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