[Buildroot] disable downloaded source cache

[Lionel Orry]

Hi Arnout and others,

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 13/02/13 17:14, Lionel Orry wrote:
>>
>> I am experimenting with the BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY feature which works
>> great for me to add my overlay before image creation.
>>
>> My overlay is versioned with git, and I would like however to allow
>> automatic synchronisation (pull or even clone, the repository is very
>> small) with my remote each time I simply do 'make'. The overlay
>> feature only copies a folder content, but does not allow updating the
>> source folder content from a site (I perfectly understand it is not
>> its purpose and the feature must be kept simple).
>
>
>  Like so often, my answer to this kind of thing is: wrap the call to
> buildroot in a script. I.e., write a script that updates the overlay (and
> any other custom package), regenerates the config from a defconfig, does
> whatever other required magic, then calls make, and maybe does some
> post-processing on the resulting images as well.
>
>  This makes it much easier to understand what happens than a totally hacked
> together xxx-overlay package.

Well I have a cleaner way actually that I used previously, which is to
use a ROOTFS_POST_BUILD build script that clones the repository and
'rsync' it on the target rootfs, I was mainly wondering if I could
achieve the same using the ROOTFS_OVERLAY feature. It seems it's not
enough for my needs, so I will actually stick to my previous
ROOTFS_POST_BUILD script and forget about ROOTFS_OVERLAY.

Thanks for your hints anyway, and keep up the good work everybody.

>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
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Best regards,
Lionel