[OE-core] bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

[Burton, Ross]

On 10 July 2012 16:57, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> What about testing the host system for presence of certain things?
>> Then one could
>>
>> 1) yum/apt/etc install the needed items
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2) Build it if it's not present
>
> Every time we put an if statement in like this, it basically means we
> should double the amount of QA, one for one path and one for the other.
>
> So whilst I've wondered about it, do we really need to do something like
> this?

Back in the day I used to massively set ASSUME_PROVIDED in local.conf
to reduce the amount of -native packages built.  When it works it's
wonderful, but then you start getting mysterious failures because it
turns out that your system's tool has different build options, or is
out of date as Poky updated and you didn't notice.

It turned out to be a false economy: by the time I'd installed and
verified the packages from Debian I could have had Poky build them for
me. :)

Ross