Embedded Linux for Developers

Sharing downloads

You will usually work on several projects simultaneously, probably for different hardware platforms or different target images. In such cases, it is important to optimize the build times by sharing downloads.

Getting ready

The build system runs a search for downloaded sources in a number of places:

• It tries the local downloads folder.
• It looks into the configured premirrors, which are usually local to your organization.
• It then tries to fetch from the upstream source as configured in the package recipe.
• Finally, it checks the configured mirrors. Mirrors are public alternate locations for the source.

If a package source is not found in any of the these four, the package build will fail with an error. Build warnings are also issued when ...