[yocto] How to force the use of git-native?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-12 09:28, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-12-12 09:20, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> On Thursday 12 December 2013 08:06:31 Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I've found that the latest bitbake fetcher changes (require
>>> the use of branch names) fails with older versions of git.
>>> I have a Fedora 13 machine which I routinely use to build
>>> my Yocto projects that has git version 1.7.7.6.  On that machine,
>>> all git fetches fail, no matter what.  On my Ubuntu builder
>>> which has git 1.7.9.4, all is OK.
>>>
>>> I see that there is a git recipe in OE-core.  How can I force
>>> it to be built and used where the host's native git is inadequate?
>>
>> The solution we provide for this kind of situation is buildtools-tarball, as
>> described here (linked from the QS guide as well):
>>
>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#required-git-tar-and-python-versions
>
> Thanks, I'll give this a go.

Oops, looks like I have a circular dependency problem since trying to make
the buildtools-tarball actually needs a working version of git??

ERROR: Fetcher failure: Unable to find revision 757a1664a440c60e8126443bf984e4bdf374c327 in branch master even from upstream
ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/local/rpi_2013-12-12/tmp/work/i686-linux/opkg-utils-native/0.1.8+gitAUTOINC+757a1664a4-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.15416
ERROR: Task 85 (virtual:native:/home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
ERROR: Fetcher failure: Unable to find revision 6822ec76aa95f278195aeae59d4868ef224d7e4d in branch cross_prelink even from upstream
ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'git://git.yoctoproject.org/prelink-cross.git;branch=cross_prelink'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/local/rpi_2013-12-12/tmp/work/i686-linux/prelink-native/1.0+gitAUTOINC+6822ec76aa-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.15406
ERROR: Task 244 (virtual:native:/home/local/poky-multi/meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'

>>
>> Interesting that git 1.7.7.6 is still not adequate though, that may be a
>> prompt to either fix the check to work with older versions of git or
>> increase our version number requirement.
>
> If you have ideas how I can investigate why this fails, I'd be glad
> to help out (to see if it can be made to work with 1.7.7.6 or if we
> just need a newer version period)
>

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