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 B543FE00796 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:05:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id EC94EF8122F; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:05:33 -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 C55D7F8122E; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:05:32 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <52A9ECDD.3040208@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:05:33 -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: "Flanagan, Elizabeth" References: <52A9D0F7.7050501@mlbassoc.com> <52A9E41A.8010601@mlbassoc.com> <52A9E4CE.1060000@mlbassoc.com> <21339055.Kdy9A2es3f@helios> <52A9E7AA.5000105@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: 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 17:05:34 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-12-12 09:56, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote: > Gary, > > If you give me a few hours I'll generate the proper tarball for you. > I've upgraded the release process to include a i386 host tarball from > now on. > > I'll send you the link when I have it done. Thanks, I appreciate this. > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------