[Buildroot] Per-package download folders and Git caching

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Apr 3 12:55:12 UTC 2018


 Hi Thomas,

 Excellent write-up!

On 03-04-18 14:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> However, it is likely that many users already have a DL_DIR with a
> number of files. What the new Buildroot will do is that it will first
> check if the requested file is in the per-package sub-folder. If it is
> not found there, it will then try to see if it is in the main DL_DIR,
> and if that's the case, it will create a hard link of this file into
> the per-package sub-folder. Therefore, you will see something like:
> 
>  + dl/
>    + linux-v4.16.tar.bz2
>    + linux/
>      + linux-v4.16.tar.bz2
> 
> But the Linux tarball is not duplicated, it is only hard-linked.

 I know a few users that put their download directory on a samba share or a
virtualbox/vmware share which has NTFS as underlying filesystem. Although NTFS
does support hardlinks, I'm not sure that Samba and virtualbox/vmware do. Any
idea what will happen in such a case?

 Regards,
 Arnout

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