[Buildroot] [RFC] core: Download all package sources
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
Wed Nov 6 23:14:34 UTC 2013
Peter, Yann, Thomas, All,
buildroot-bounces at busybox.net wrote on 11/06/2013 05:07:29 PM:
> >> But does this matter for USERS? I would guess users are only
interested
> >> in a subset of all the packages (E.G. the ones for the arch they use
or
> >> the ones enabled in their .config).
>
> > Yes, it does.
>
> > Some companies are using a very restrictive firewall, that does not
> > allow anything but plain http and https (sometime even with MITM),
and
> > no cvs, git, or even ftp...
>
> > So, some like to get a computer to another network, do the downloads,
and
> > serve them on the LAN from a mirror.
>
> > Sometime, the network is really slow (eg. low BW, or high latency),
so
> > this is also usefull to be able to make a complete mirror.
>
> > Of course, that needs resyncing from time to time, but easier done
than
> > coping with a bunch of cursing angry users irrupting in one's office
> > every now and then! :-)
>
> Sure, but that's what we have 'make source' (for specific
> configurations) or sources.buildroot.net (for local mirror of
> everything) for, right?
I don't know what all configurations are being used so I would
rather be safe and pull down all of the packages. This would make
it easier than running make source on a bunch of different configurations.
Thanks,
Clayton
Clayton Shotwell
Software Engineer
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
www.rockwellcollins.com
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