[yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your yocto dev host

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:51 PM
>To: Robert P. J. Day
>Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your
>yocto dev host
>
>On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how
>> to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is
>> pretty clearly contradictory information.
>>
>>   as one example, there's this page on getting started with OE:
>>
>> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Getting_started
>
>I produced this page recently; FWIW I also came up with the pared-down
>package
>lists that went into the Quick Start Guide which this page borrows. How
>is
>this contradictory if it uses the same information?
>
>> that claims to steal from a number of sources including the yocto QS
>> guide, but look at the packages one is instructed to install on that
>> page, particularly under fedora: python, perl, git, and so on.
>
>So I don't recall exactly how perl got on that list; but python and git
>are
>absolutely required on the host. That's why they're in ASSUME_PROVIDED.

Paul - Should I remove perl from the essentials list for fedora and centos?

>
>>   as i read it, the sanity.bbclass and ASSUME_PROVIDED will dictate
>> what needs to be there and what will be used if it's installed
>> natively, no?  it certainly seems that that wiki page is insructing
>> the developer to install a lot of software that OE will handle
>> automatically, no?
>
>Er, no. Well, if by "handle automatically" you mean "error out when they
>are
>not present" then that's not very helpful - it's much easier if people
>just
>get a list of what they need to install up front.
>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
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>
>Paul Eggleton
>Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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