[Buildroot] cached downloads for scm branches

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 20-10-16 22:29, Michael Walle wrote:
> thanks. yeah i thought so. Just to give you some background regarding my
> question. We have some kind of CI, actually it's rather a daily build. we build
> a root filesystem with some fixed packages, but also with multiple packages of
> our own and we want to track the tip of a branch for a build (because it is CI
> ;)). I don't think the src override method really suit the CI case. I guess one
> way could be that the CI defines the commit that should be build. Or simply
> delete the download. mhh ;)

 Actually, the src override method fits the CI case perfectly because CI can
watch the repositories to be overridden and check them out.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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