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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-12 09:56, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I appreciate this.

> 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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