Re: [Gumstix-users] Buildroot is failling on an FTP to ftp.mars.com

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

On 6/2/07, Marc Humphreys <mhu...@lo...> wrote:
> I once in a while get similar ftp errors because a site may be down. My
> solution is simply to do a google search and find another site that has the
> gz file of the version you want, save it off to you local disk and then move
> it in the dl directory. Next time through make it will find the local copy
> in the dl dir and move on past to the next step when is usually
> unzips/untars it.

I also do the following to dramatically reduce the number of files
from the internet.

I create a directory called dl-cache in my gumstix directory (which
contains all of my gumstix-buildroot directories.

Then after fetching from svn and before doing the initial make, I do:

ln -s ../dl-cache dl

Often I forget and see that it's starting to download the linux
kernel, so I hit Control-C and remove the dl directory and setup the
link.

That way it only has to grab tarballs I've never usued before.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/