[Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 3] Allow BR2_PRIMARY_SITE and BR2_BACKUP_SITE to be a file:// URL

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 25 08:30:06 UTC 2011


Le Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:54:15 +0200,
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I don't think that BR2_DL_DIR and BR2_PRIMARY_SITE serve the same
> purpose. The former specifies where packages should be stored, which
> implies write permissions. The latter specifies where packages come
> from, which only implies read permissions. In a project with multiple
> developers, one wouldn't want the central 'DL_DIR' to become cluttered
> with packages from each individual developer's experiments.

Sounds like a good and convincing argumentation. I'll try to look at
integrating the feature.

Regards,

Thomas
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