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

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia czwartek, 11 października 2007, Michal Panczyk napisał:

> The source files are kept in /usr/portage/distfiles/ dir which belongs
> to root. 

> 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 ?

Set DL_DIR to /usr/portage/distfiles/ and make this directory r/w for 
users which use OE.

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