On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: > Robert, > > We do have a question addressed in the Yocto Project Reference > Manual that talks about premirrors and how Poky finds stuff. See > the H.24 section of the manual > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html. > Maybe this information is a bit too buried to be useful. I could > specifically reference that FAQ entry from within the QS in the same > area that I mention the other "useful" items to consider in the > local.conf file, such as BB_NUMBER_THREADS, etc. > > Scott
i know about the PREMIRRORS stuff in the poky reference manual -- i was just toying with the idea that knowing how PREMIRRORS works would be useful, even for a beginner. perhaps i'm not using it properly, but in my case, it's handy since i have a downloads directory of nothing but tarballs that i've been accumulating over the last while that i've used for openembedded and other projects. i'm using PREMIRRORS_prepend to take advantage of all that content to avoid any unnecessary downloading. and every time i *do* end up downloading a newer version of a tarball that i didn't have, i copy it to that central downloads directory for the next time. does that make sense? and, as i said, even beginners should be able to appreciate taking advantage of local content they may have collected for other reasons. in any event, i have some different ideas for the design of a beginner's guide i plan on using in some of my own presentations, so i don't have to inflict all of my ideas on everyone else. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto