Can we remove the downloading of Linaro and other build dependencies from the build process?

That would save so much time and bandwidth.  Most of us are able to obtain and install the Linaro and other dependencies for our build systems on our own.  Let's figure out how to avoid doing this on each and every clean build of Armbian.

 

I have lots of bandwidth and the build doesn't even start after it takes ten to twenty minutes downloading these packages.

 

Thanks, and I appreciate any comments on this request.

 

There are multiple open tasks about toolchains in our Jira: https://armbian.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/AR/issues/?jql=project %3D "AR" AND text ~ "toolchain" ORDER BY created DESC

And I remember there beeing talk about only downloading the toolchain that's needed for selected board. 

 

Maybe this is something you could implement in a seperate branch, so we can have a look at it and test it? Could be based on the extension system rpardini did a few weeks ago: 

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3300

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3282

 

These also implemented a flag called "SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS=yes" which you can use to skip the toolchain download.