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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:31:10 Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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#requi
> >> red-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??

I don't think it's reasonable to expect to build buildtools-tarball on a 
system that isn't capable of building at the moment; you should just download 
a prebuilt version as linked from the manual section above *or* build it on 
another machine.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre