[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: support "local" as download method

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Dec 13 17:30:02 UTC 2011


On Friday 09 December 2011 03:44:24 Tzu-Jung Lee wrote:
> > It's true that the Linux package is special in that it is very likely
> > that many people will want to use a local source directory, but I'm
> > fearing that we will end up adding many of those
> > "<something>_CUSTOM_LOCAL" option that just duplicate what is possible
> > thanks to the override source directory mechanism.
> 
> I tried both LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR and LINUX_CUSTOM_LOCAL, and sent the
> patch for the latter in case someone else might end up doing the same thing.

 You can actually achieve the same from the command line:

make LINUX_SITE=/... LINUX_SITE_METHOD=file linux

 Regards,
 Arnout

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