From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C24E007D4 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:37:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2013 08:37:47 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,879,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="443181089" Received: from mmckenna-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.252]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2013 08:37:46 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: Gary Thomas Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:37:45 +0000 Message-ID: <21339055.Kdy9A2es3f@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.8.0-34-generic; KDE/4.10.5; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <52A9E4CE.1060000@mlbassoc.com> References: <52A9D0F7.7050501@mlbassoc.com> <52A9E41A.8010601@mlbassoc.com> <52A9E4CE.1060000@mlbassoc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Yocto Project Subject: Re: How to force the use of git-native? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:37:50 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:31:10 Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2013-12-12 09:28, Gary Thomas wrote: > > On 2013-12-12 09:20, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> Hi Gary, > >> > >> On Thursday 12 December 2013 08:06:31 Gary Thomas wrote: > >>> I've found that the latest bitbake fetcher changes (require > >>> the use of branch names) fails with older versions of git. > >>> I have a Fedora 13 machine which I routinely use to build > >>> my Yocto projects that has git version 1.7.7.6. On that machine, > >>> all git fetches fail, no matter what. On my Ubuntu builder > >>> which has git 1.7.9.4, all is OK. > >>> > >>> I see that there is a git recipe in OE-core. How can I force > >>> it to be built and used where the host's native git is inadequate? > >> > >> The solution we provide for this kind of situation is buildtools-tarball, > >> as described here (linked from the QS guide as well): > >> > >> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#requi > >> red-git-tar-and-python-versions> > > Thanks, I'll give this a go. > > Oops, looks like I have a circular dependency problem since trying to make > the buildtools-tarball actually needs a working version of git?? I don't think it's reasonable to expect to build buildtools-tarball on a system that isn't capable of building at the moment; you should just download a prebuilt version as linked from the manual section above *or* build it on another machine. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre