From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D41CE007D4 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:28:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 392EDF8122E; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:28:11 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EF5F81207; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:28:10 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <52A9E41A.8010601@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:28:10 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <52A9D0F7.7050501@mlbassoc.com> <3017575.Mc510FLHbh@helios> In-Reply-To: <3017575.Mc510FLHbh@helios> 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 16:28:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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#required-git-tar-and-python-versions Thanks, I'll give this a go. > > 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. If you have ideas how I can investigate why this fails, I'd be glad to help out (to see if it can be made to work with 1.7.7.6 or if we just need a newer version period) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------