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On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 14:23 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
> 
> > Originally, git was something new, not installed everywhere and had
> > commandline stability problems. This has changed and git it no longer
> > makes sense to continually build this when the system installed version
> > is likely sufficient.
> 
> Can this really be assumed? Recent bitbake use something like 
> 
>  | git remote add --mirror=fetch
> 
> The git version in RHEL 6 or Ubuntu 10 are too old for this and support
> '--mirror' without a value only.

You're right unfortunately, we're going to need to rethink this. I
didn't think the git fetcher used any advanced syntax now but it clearly
does :(

Does anyone know what the actual version dependency is? I know its after
1.7.3.4 and before 1.7.5.4.

Cheers,

Richard