[Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 5] toolchain-external: allow downloading a custom toolchain

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 21 11:38:08 UTC 2011


Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:22:16 +0200,
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> a écrit :

> For me it's fine to keep the distinction, but be aware that the
> local/remote naming may be confusing: if a user receives a toolchain
> tarball from e.g. a hardware manufacturer and saves it to his disk, I
> would call it 'local'. But that user would typically like to use the
> 'remote' rules so that he does not need to unpack the toolchain
> himself.
> 
> Maybe we should call it 'custom toolchain tarball' versus 'custom
> unpacked toolchain' or something alike. The tarball can be either
> local (file://something) or remote (http, ftp, scp, ...).

Yes, sounds better.

Regards,

Thomas
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