[meta-intel] [PATCH] intel-mediasdk: disable git-lfs fetching

[Ross Burton]

On 20/09/2019 13:22, Mittal, Anuj wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 11:33 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>> On 20/09/2019 02:16, Mittal, Anuj wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 23:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>>>> The git-lfs content is only used by the samples which we don't
>>>> use or
>>>> install. Set lfs=0 so that git-lfs isn't a requirement on the
>>>> build
>>>> host.
>>>
>>> It still tries to fetch the content at the time of unpacking. This
>>> is
>>> what I get during do_unpack when git-lfs in not in HOSTTOOLS:
>>>
>>> git -c core.fsyncobjectfiles=0 checkout -B intel-mediasdk-19.2
>>> 885c309f57a7a1cbc60edee6b0d014a36da94562 failed with exit code 128,
>>> output:
>>> git-lfs filter-process: git-lfs: command not found
>>> fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>> I forgot to put in the commit message:
>>
>>     This needs the lfs option to the git fetcher, which is currently
>> in
>>     bitbake master as of be0b78ccfc5ede98041bc0545a15092494b12b26.
>>
> 
> Yes, I have that commit in my tree. Only change is I commented
> HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL = git-lfs in bitbake.conf and manually removed git-
> lfs link from tmp/hosttools.

What happens if you actually remove git-lfs from the host, instead of 
fiddling HOSTTOOLS?  I'm wondering if this is git looking for git-lfs in 
/usr/bin explicitly, but then trying to run it with PATH lookup which 
fails as /usr/bin isn't in $PATH.

Ross