[yocto] How to maintain a global DL_DIR?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Gary Thomas wrote:

> On 2016-08-16 18:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I use the attached script to manage my download mirror...

  well, *that* escalated quickly. :-)

rday

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