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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-16 08:10, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
> 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.

Seems to work fine on my Fedora 13 box.

Thanks

> 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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