[Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: add BR2_DL_DIR_OPTS

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2018-11-01 13:19 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 31/10/18 22:39, Markus Mayer wrote:
> > Provide a simple mechanism to pass extra arguments to "mkdir" when
> > creating download directories. This can be helpful if one needs the
> > download directories to be writable multiple users ("shared download
> > cache").
> 
>  I think having a Config.in option for this is way overkill. You can just make
> the directory before calling Buildroot, right? And if it is a shared directory,
> it should be created only once anyway.

Yes for the top-level BR2_DL_DIR. But Buildroot does create sub-dirs,
one per package, and Bbuildroot also enforces the umask to 0022, which
means sub-dirs will not have the group-writable bit set.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
> [snip]
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