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

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

Gary,

If you give me a few hours I'll generate the proper tarball for you.
I've upgraded the release process to include a i386 host tarball from
now on.

I'll send you the link when I have it done.

-b

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 2013-12-12 09:37, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Too bad that pointer is only for x86_64 hosts (mine is i386 only)
>
>
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Elizabeth Flanagan
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