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

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

Gary:

This should help.
http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/buildtools/20131216-2/buildtools/poky-eglibc-i686-buildtools-tarball-i586-buildtools-nativesdk-standalone-1.5.sh

I haven't tested this out yet, but it is based off of the dora 10.0.0
release, so please, let me know if you have problems with it.

-b

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> 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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