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 00C4AE007D4 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:43:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id CF037F8122E; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:43:24 -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=ham version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B2BF81207; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:43:22 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <52A9E7AA.5000105@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:43:22 -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: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <52A9D0F7.7050501@mlbassoc.com> <52A9E41A.8010601@mlbassoc.com> <52A9E4CE.1060000@mlbassoc.com> <21339055.Kdy9A2es3f@helios> In-Reply-To: <21339055.Kdy9A2es3f@helios> 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 16:43:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-12-12 09:37, Paul Eggleton wrote: > 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. Too bad that pointer is only for x86_64 hosts (mine is i386 only) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------