From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 8003FE006C4; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:51:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no * trust * [208.80.206.84 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from smtp684.redcondor.net (smtp684.redcondor.net [208.80.206.84]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121F5E003FA for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by smtp684.redcondor.net ({700db0a8-6fb7-4c8b-9b2a-6812225182d8}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20140725165134769 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:34 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [24.211.139.253] (port=33362 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XAiiP-0000Pu-6W; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:51:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:51:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Khem Raj In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-MAG-OUTBOUND: ccj.redcondor.net@64.235.106.9/32 Cc: Yocto discussion list Subject: Re: are there any more obvious candidates for ASSUME_PROVIDED? 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: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:46 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Khem Raj wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > asked about this once upon a time ... are there any other > > possibilities for adding to ASSUME_PROVIDED in local.conf.sample, > > given that there are surely more native utilities that are fairly safe > > by now? > > > > for example, it's still weird that current default ASSUME_PROVIDED > > includes bzip2 but not gzip, especially since the quick start guide: > > > > https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html > > > > lists *both* of them as required on your build host. > > > > it also seems odd that that list includes git but not subversion. > > anyway, you get the idea. > > may times utilities have bugs or undesired behavior for OE so this > list is dynamic and sometimes > not all distro carry a certain version which OE expects and there are > ABI/format changes as it happened between svn 1.6 and 1.7 fair enough, but what about the simpler example of gzip as opposed to bzip2? it's just trying to understand what makes the list and what doesn't. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================