# Options specific to downloading packages comment "Downloading" config FORBID_DOWNLOAD bool prompt "Forbid downloads" default n help Normally, crosstool-NG will try to download missing tarballs (or checkout from CVS/SVN...). If you do not have network connectivity when you run crosstool-NG, and some files are missing, it can be a long time before crosstool-NG fails. Saying 'y' here will prevent crosstool-NG from downloading missing files, thus failing early so that you don't get stuck. if ! FORBID_DOWNLOAD config FORCE_DOWNLOAD bool prompt "Force downloads" default n help Force downloading tarballs, even if one already exists. Usefull if you suspect a tarball to be damaged. menuconfig USE_MIRROR bool prompt "Use LAN mirror" default n help If you have a machine on your LAN that mirrors some of the needed tarballs, you can say 'Y' here, and configure adequate values in the following options. Tarballs will be be preferably fetched from the LAN mirror, and if not found there, standard places will be searched for. Obviously, nothing prevents you from using a mirror that is in fact *not* on your LAN, for example on another subnet of your company's network, or a mirror on the Internet. I (Yann E. MORIN) have set up such a mirror to host snapshots of some components, when those snapshots are volatile on the upstream servers. The mirror is *slow*, because it is hosted behind an ADSL line. For the time being, I haven't set up bandwidth limitations, but should the mirror be abused, I will. Please avoid using my machine when you can... The mirror is available as (fill in those values in the fields below): host name: ymorin.is-a-geek.org base dir : /mirrors if USE_MIRROR config PREFER_MIRROR bool prompt "Prefer the LAN mirror" default n help Say 'Y' here if you prefer the LAN miror over the upstream sources. choice bool prompt "Server type:" config MIRROR_HTTP bool prompt "http" config MIRROR_FTP bool prompt "ftp" endchoice # Server type config MIRROR_SCHEME string default "http" if MIRROR_HTTP default "ftp" if MIRROR_FTP config MIRROR_HOSTNAME string prompt "hostname" default "" help Enter here the hostname on your LAN mirror. config MIRROR_BASE string prompt "Base directory" default "" help This is the base directory searched for for tarballs. If you enter /mirror, then the search is performed in the following directories on the server: /mirror// /mirror/ where is replaced with the actual package name. config MIRROR_LS_R bool # prompt "Use ls-lR et al." depends on EXPERIMENTAL default n help If the tarball was not found at the above location, see if the server has a ls-lr.gz (or similar) file, and use that file to see if the tarball is listed somewhere in that file. Common file names looked for are: ls-lrRt.txt (used at ftp.gnu.org) find.txt (ditto) ls-lR endif # USE_MIRROR config CONNECT_TIMEOUT int prompt "connection timeout" default 10 help From the curl manual: Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take. The scenario is as follows; - some enterprise networks have firewalls that prohibit FTP traffic, while still allowing HTTP - most download sites have http:// equivalent for the ftp:// URL - after this number of seconds, it is considered that the connection could not be established, and the next URL in the list is tried, until we reach an URL that will go through the firewall, most probably an http:// URL. If you have a slow network, you'd better set this value higher than the default 10s. If you know a firewall is blocking connections, but your network is globally fast, you can try to lower this value to jump more quickly to allowed URLs. YMMV. Note that this value applies equally to wget if you have that installed. config ONLY_DOWNLOAD bool prompt "Stop after downloading tarballs" default n help Only download the tarballs. Exit once it done. Usefull to pre-retrieve the tarballs before going off-line. endif # ! FORBID_DOWNLOAD