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 A2FCEE00796 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2013 08:20:10 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,879,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="451260577" Received: from mmckenna-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.252]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2013 08:20:07 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: Gary Thomas Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:20:06 +0000 Message-ID: <3017575.Mc510FLHbh@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.8.0-34-generic; KDE/4.10.5; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <52A9D0F7.7050501@mlbassoc.com> References: <52A9D0F7.7050501@mlbassoc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org 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 16:20:11 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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#required-git-tar-and-python-versions Interesting that git 1.7.7.6 is still not adequate though, that may be a prompt to either fix the check to work with older versions of git or increase our version number requirement. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre