[BusyBox] Problems with buildroot wget/no common repository

[Magnus Damm]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:21:40 +0100, Ulf Samuelsson <ulfs at dof.se> wrote:
> I just don't want umpteen copies of the same tarballs lying around.

Well, you said it. DVD media is cheap. But IDE drives, how expensive
are they? I mean, my machine has a 2 year old 120 GB HD that at that
time cost less than $200 (USD). Even if I have loads of toolchains and
tarballs on it at least 50 % of the space is filled with divx.

> Today it is hard to avoid copies, but with some thought, it would be possible to have it both ways.

I think it is hard to find one solution that fits all users. I dunno
about buildroot, but crosstool is basically a set of shell scripts,
data files and patches. In other words - it is rather easy to modify
the scripts.

Just write some glue code (sh-scripts of makefiles) that wraps around
the projects and sets the variables to fit your taste. If you are
unlucky you might need to patch the projects but that is probably
rather easy too.

I have quite recently designed a small stand alone distribution that
could be executed in QEMU. The distribution is based on busybox and
linux-2.6 and crosscompiles everything from sources using crosstool to
minimize the dependencies of the build machine. No root access is
needed. I would be happy to share the code with anyone that is
interested.

/ magnus