From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SobO3-0003G0-Tk for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:26:00 +0200 Received: from cpec03f0ed08c7f-cm001ac318e826.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.115.5.73]:53200 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SobDG-0005oM-QB for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:14:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:14:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@oneiric To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer In-Reply-To: <1341929395.24837.14.camel@ted> Message-ID: References: <1341927124.24837.8.camel@ted> <1341929395.24837.14.camel@ted> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) 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 - lists.openembedded.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: Subject: Re: bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:26:00 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================