[BusyBox] Problems with buildroot wget/no common repository

[Magnus Damm]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:16:24 +0100, Ulf Samuelsson <ulfs at dof.se> wrote:
> Crosstool defines the download directory as <home>/download.
> For a single user this might be OK, but when multiple users are involved, you then get even more copies.
> You *can* define an environment variable for the source directory.

My script that use crosstool exports TARBALLS_DIR to the place where I
keep the sources. I would not rely on the crosstool script to always
find the sources and patches on the Internet, I download them with
crosstool and then keep them in a per-project repository.

Regardless of if you plan to distribute a binary or not, it might be a
good idea to keep all sources of your embedded system together to a)
make it easy to ship one source tarball to comply with GPL and b) make
it remotely possible to rebuild the binary from sources in the future
or whenever you need to do that (year 2050 or so).

/ magnus