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docs/manual: do not suggest to create a symlink for shared download directory

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Creating a symbolic link for the download directory is really not a
useful suggestion, since we have the much better solution of the
BUILDROOT_DL_DIR environment variable. So emphasize this solution
instead, and remove the suggestion of the symbolic link.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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Thomas Petazzoni 2012-12-29 04:42:33 +00:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
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Location of downloaded packages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored in
+DL_DIR+, which by default is the +dl+ directory. If you want
The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored
in +BR2_DL_DIR+, which by default is the +dl+ directory. If you want
to keep a complete version of Buildroot which is known to be working
with the associated tarballs, you can make a copy of this directory.
This will allow you to regenerate the toolchain and the target filesystem
with exactly the same versions.
This will allow you to regenerate the toolchain and the target
filesystem with exactly the same versions.
If you maintain several Buildroot trees, it might be better to have a
shared download location. This can be accessed by creating a symbolic
link from the +dl+ directory to the shared download location:
-----------------
$ ln -s <shared download location> dl
-----------------
Another way of accessing a shared download location is to create the
+BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable. If this is set, then the
value of DL_DIR in the project is overridden. The following line
should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+.
shared download location. This can be achieved by pointing the
+BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable to a directory. If this is
set, then the value of +BR2_DL_DIR+ in the Buildroot configuration is
overridden. The following line should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+.
-----------------
$ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR <shared download location>