[OT?] some inconsistencies in listing required build software

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  not sure if this is the right list (oe/poky/yocto?), but since it
involves yocto docs, i'll ask here.

  there seem to be some (admittedly minor) inconsistencies in both the
docs and code for checking the sanity of a build environment (i'm
basing this off the current yocto docs and the current poky master
branch).

  first, over at the QS guide:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html

there are, of course, the list of required packages for the common
distros, and these lists refer to *packages* to be installed. this is
fine, but the wording suggests that the developer is responsible for
manually installing them, without mentioning that yocto itself will
help them out later with the sanity checking. i think that's useful to
know, but there's more.

  over in meta/conf/bitbake.conf, there is what i assume is the
default list of ASSUME_PROVIDED commands:

ASSUME_PROVIDED = "\
    bzip2-native \
    chrpath-native \
    git-native \
    grep-native \
    diffstat-native \
    patch-native \
    perl-native-runtime \
    python-native-runtime \
    tar-native \
    virtual/libintl-native \
    texinfo-native\
    "
# gzip-native should be listed above?

  so the first question is, given that the QS guide suggests gzip is a
*required* package (see fedora and centos package lists), why *isn't*
gzip part of ASSUME_PROVIDED above? it seems that the QS packages list
and the above should match, no?

  finally, over in meta/classes/sanity.bbclass, there's:

#
# Sanity check the users setup for common misconfigurations
#

SANITY_REQUIRED_UTILITIES ?= "patch diffstat makeinfo git bzip2 tar \
    gzip gawk chrpath wget cpio perl"

  silly question -- is this list supposed to represent the utilities
that must be on the machine *before* any OE processing is done?
because, again , there seems to be an inconsistency in that this seems
to require gzip, while ASSUME_PROVIDED doesn't mention it. it also
doesn't mention unzip, which the QS packages lists refer to as
required.

  none of this is a big deal, of course, but it would be nice if it
were consistent.

rday

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