Re: bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

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

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 10:02 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Richard Purdie wrote:

> > >  # its own in staging
> > >  ASSUME_PROVIDED = "\
> > >      bzip2-native \
> > > +    git-native \
> > >      grep-native \
> > >      diffstat-native \
> > >      patch-native \
> >
> >   possibly a dumb question, but is this the sort of thing one could
> > extend in one's local.conf file if they were fairly sure their
> > installed versions were compatible?
>
> For some things like git-native, it would be safe. For others like
> perl-native or python-native, you could seriously shoot yourself in
> the foot. subversion-native needs to be 1.7+ as an example.
>
> The general idea is correct though, you can extend this from
> local.conf, yes.

  sure, i appreciate that there's always danger, but with a current
distro, one would think that most standard utilities would be new
enough to work just fine.  thanks.

rday

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