[oe-users] how to make OE work with source files downloaded by other package manager

[Rubén]

you can do link's from /usr/portage/distfiles to /stuff/oe-dir/ 
downloads and later do a md5sum :)

I have a script for do it. It's very poor but works.
Can I attach the file here ?


El 11/10/2007, a las 20:40, Michal Panczyk escribió:

> Hello all,
> I am looking for a tip how to make openembedded work with gentoo's
> portage in the field of downloaded source files.
> I am not sure how may OE uses use gentoo linux, so I will make some
> short introduction.
> From my, user's point of view, gentoo's pakage management system works
> similar to OE - it takes care of dependencies, compiles packages from
> the source, and what is most important for this massage - downloads
> the souce files and checks the signatures....
> The source files are kept in /usr/portage/distfiles/ dir which  
> belongs to root.
>  When OE builds a package it downloads the source file, compares its
> md5 sum and stores it in directory from the local.conf. Additional
> thing that OE does it leaves a footprint that a job of downloading a
> file has been done - by creating PACKAGE.do_fetch file in proper
> tmp/stamps/xxx/ directory. Without that file bitbake try's to fetch
> the source even it the file was already downloaded by bitbake.
> My question is - how to make OE work with files that were already
> downloaded (in this case by gentoo' portage) to:
> 1) save time/bandwidth, by not downloading the same files twice,
> 2) save space by keeping all the source files in one place ?
>
> I would be grateful for some tips.....
>
> Regards,
> Michal
>
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