[yocto] How to maintain a global DL_DIR?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Khem Raj wrote:

> > 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.

  good point, i will adjust that later. anything else i overlooked?

rday

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