[yocto] Sanity tested distributions list

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2011 15:59:39 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Paul Eggleton
>> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > We had some discussions [1] [2] about this last cycle but I don't feel
>> > we
>> > reached a proper conclusion on the list of tested distributions we want
>> > to set (SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS) and I assume we want to support a few
>> > more distros (latest versions of Fedora & Ubuntu, presumably?). I'd
>> > like to update and re- post the patch [3] so we can close bug #1096 [4]
>> > but for that we need to agree on the list.
>>
>> I'm fairly comprehensively testing something close to the edison 1.1.1
>> release on CentOS 5.5 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. We plan on adding more but
>> maybe not in time for our next release.
>
> I can definitely see a compelling reason to mark CentOS 5.x as supported, but
> the problem with it is it doesn't come with Python 2.6, so BitBake won't work
> out of the box (actually right now it fails before it has a chance to show a
> reasonable error message, which is even worse). We really need a concise set
> of instructions on how to install the external python tarball, at the moment I
> don't think we have these.
>
> Did you need to perform any other special steps on either of these
> distributions?

I'm not 100% sure what I did to bring up our CentOS box but I think
all I needed was to install python 2.6.

-M