[Buildroot] Per-package download folders and Git caching

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, Arnout, All,

On 2018-04-03 15:17 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
>  >  I know a few users that put their download directory on a samba share or a
>  > virtualbox/vmware share which has NTFS as underlying filesystem. Although NTFS
>  > does support hardlinks, I'm not sure that Samba and virtualbox/vmware do. Any
>  > idea what will happen in such a case?
> 
> Then presumably the ln call will fail and we download the tarball again
> in the new location?

No, the script would fail, because the script runs with 'set -e'.

Should we do a cp if ln fails, then?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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