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Subject: Re: building Yocto on Fedora 14 vs. Ubuntu 11.10
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On Thursday 05 January 2012 10:59:02 Jim Abernathy wrote:
> I'm finding differences between the number of task for building
> meta-cedartrail on ubuntu 11.10 vs. doing the same thing on Fedora 14
> and wondered if this is a problem.
> 
> On a clean build of core-image-sato, the first section has 63 tasks on
> Ubuntu 11.10, but 126 tasks on Fedora 14.  126 is the number I remember
> seeing for the first section of the build on other Sato builds.
> 
> Is this an issue? is this caused by the different development O/S's?

This is almost certainly due to the version of tar in Fedora 14 being "too 
old" such that it contains a bug in symlink handling - if it is then we just 
build tar-replacement-native and use that instead.

Nothing to worry about :)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre