[Buildroot] [PATCH] Re: offline buiding

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:13PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote:
>On 1/3/07, Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop at aon.at> wrote:
>>On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:10:09PM +0100, Petr Stetiar wrote:
>>>Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop at aon.at> [2007-01-03 13:15:56]:
>>>
>>>> Note that several packages are a bit buggy in this respect since they 
>>lack a
>>>> foo-source: target. These need to be fixed. Patches are -- as always --
>>>> welcome.
>>>
>>>Attached patch should add these missing targets.
>>
>>The convention is to put the foo-source target just below the rule to
>>download the source (plus eventual patches) so it's easier to see if the
>>-source needs adjustment to include eventual patches.
>>
>>I corrected your patch accordingly (r17143).
>>Thanks!
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>
>:-( i cann't understand what you said 'foo-source' and the purpose of
>the patch.  i think i will go to manually grab the tallballs needed.
>it might be easier to me.

The foo-source was directed to Petr.

Either download the tarballs manually, or use a host with an
internet-connection. On that connected host, adjust your .config that
you want to build offline and issue
$ make source

Then transfer the content of the "dl" dir to your offline-host.

HTH,