[yocto] package requirements for CentOS

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:43 AM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
<B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Rifenbark, Scott M
> <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com> wrote:
>> I have recently added the CentOS distribution to the YP QS.  The list now
>> includes Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and CentOS.  Further down in the manual
>> there are sections detailing the package requirements for Ubuntu, Fedora,
>> and openSUSE.  I should address CentOS.  Here is the link to the sections
>> currently there.  Does anyone know the package requirements for CentOS?
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html#packages
>
> We have some idea. The biggest difference looks to be chrpath is not
> available on CentOS/RHEL 5.x distro's by default. I thought the same
> could be said of python2.6 so I'm not sure at the moment how we handle
> that. (This is for edison so it should still be applicable)


We handle python 2.6 by adding the fedora EL yum repository and
installing python2.6 from there (incidentally, other useful things
like git are in that repo).
-- 
Christopher Larson