[Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 3] Add support for local package downloads (file://)
Thomas De Schampheleire
patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 12:39:32 UTC 2011
Hi Thomas,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:27:05 +0100
> Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch series add support for file:// URLs for both the package
>> infrastructure, as for the BR2_PRIMARY_SITE and BR2_BACKUP_SITE
>> options. URLs starting with file:// will be handled by a plain 'cp'
>> instead of wget. A new SITE_METHOD 'file' is added. Documentation is
>> updated as well.
>>
>> Note that this is mainly useful in situations where developers
>> working on a project are sharing the same filesystem (e.g. disk,
>> NFS, ...), as typically is the case in corporate environments. In
>> that case, one may add one or more local project-specific packages,
>> and even use a central storage location as 'proxy' for package
>> downloads (using BR2_PRIMARY_SITE with a file:// URL).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire
>> <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>
> I agree with the principle, I need to do a bit of testing before acking
> the patches.
>
> Thanks for this work!
Did you have some time to have a better look at these patches?
Thanks,
Thomas
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