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ID Category Severity Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
0003154 [buildroot] New Features feature N/A 04-26-08 19:21 07-05-08 07:11
Reporter kendallc View Status public  
Assigned To buildroot
Priority normal Resolution open  
Status assigned   Product Version
Summary 0003154: configure option for local package mirror
Description It would be nice to have an option for buildroot pull packages from a local mirror. This feature would allow users to run a fresh buildroot build without an internet connection. It requires the addition of a configuration option. It also requires a few lines below the "..._SITE:=" stuff in every package's makefile.

I've attached a patch that adds a BR2_PACKAGE_MIRROR option to target/device/Config.in.mirrors. The patch adds support for the option to uClibc, and busybox. This patch is just an example of how this feature could be added to a couple of packages.

The code to add the feature is fairly simple; however, it requires touching every package makefile.
Additional Information
Attached Files  buildroot-local-mirror.patch [^] (1,453 bytes) 04-26-08 19:21

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(0007254)
hbr_in
04-26-08 21:38

 Hi,

Instead of adding an option, what i do is that -->

i have a local directory which contain all my sources.

my local src --> /opt/source
my buildroot directory --> /opt/buildroot

Inside Buildroot, i link the above folder to dl directory i.e., to a directory where buildroot downloads and stores all package source

/opt/buildroot # ln -s /opt/source dl

So when buildroot starts make it 1st check in dl/ directory (which is my local source directory) and if it finds the source there then it doesnt need any internet connection.

Regards
Gururaja
 
(0007274)
UlfSamuelsson
04-27-08 07:18

 A better implementation would replace $(WGET) with a script
which test the main location first and then goes through a
list of mirrors.
Then no package file need to be touched, and it is easy
to maintain a number of mirrors.
 
(0007294)
kendallc
04-28-08 19:56

 There are ways to accomplish this outside of buildroot. My suggestion was to integrate this feature into buildroot.

Whatever the implementation, it will take some effort to do it properly. I guess the first issue is whether or not this feature useful to enough users to warrant implementing.
 
(0008954)
UlfSamuelsson
07-05-08 00:56

 I think it would be better to replace the WGET command
with a new command $(DOWNLOAD)
which a function which has two parameters.

1) SITE
2) TARBALL

The function will try to download from $(SITE)/$(TARBALL)
and if this fails, then it will try downloads from
BR2_PACKAGE_MIRROR which is a list of hosts separated by spaces.

You can also have a file in you home directory ~/.buildroot/mirrors
containing a list of hosts.
 
(0008994)
Correa
07-05-08 07:11

 openwrt has a neat way of handling this.

You define PKG_FILE, PKG_SITE and PKG_MD5 and call a function. PKG_SITE can be a list of URL's or it can include some "custom keywords" for well known mirrors such as mirror://gnu/somepackage [^] or mirror://sourceforge/someproject [^]

The processing is done in a perl script, I would rather prefer if it was bash if possible, so we don't require perl in the host computer, but if we use their code it would be ok and quite some improvement over just plain wget.
 

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
04-26-08 19:21 kendallc New Issue
04-26-08 19:21 kendallc Status new => assigned
04-26-08 19:21 kendallc Assigned To  => buildroot
04-26-08 19:21 kendallc File Added: buildroot-local-mirror.patch
04-26-08 21:38 hbr_in Note Added: 0007254
04-27-08 07:18 UlfSamuelsson Note Added: 0007274
04-28-08 19:56 kendallc Note Added: 0007294
07-05-08 00:56 UlfSamuelsson Note Added: 0008954
07-05-08 07:11 Correa Note Added: 0008994

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