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On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:16 -0600, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2011 15:59:39 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Paul Eggleton
> > <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > We had some discussions [1] [2] about this last cycle but I don't feel
> > > we
> > > reached a proper conclusion on the list of tested distributions we want
> > > to set (SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS) and I assume we want to support a few
> > > more distros (latest versions of Fedora & Ubuntu, presumably?). I'd
> > > like to update and re- post the patch [3] so we can close bug #1096 [4]
> > > but for that we need to agree on the list.
> > 
> > I'm fairly comprehensively testing something close to the edison 1.1.1
> > release on CentOS 5.5 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. We plan on adding more but
> > maybe not in time for our next release.
> 
> I can definitely see a compelling reason to mark CentOS 5.x as supported, but 
> the problem with it is it doesn't come with Python 2.6, so BitBake won't work 
> out of the box (actually right now it fails before it has a chance to show a 
> reasonable error message, which is even worse). We really need a concise set 
> of instructions on how to install the external python tarball, at the moment I 
> don't think we have these.

EPEL has a python26 RPM which works perfectly well if you add a
~/bin/python symlink to python26. No need to compile python from
scratch.
--
Michael