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

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de
Wed Jul 11 12:23:17 UTC 2012


Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org>
writes:

> Originally, git was something new, not installed everywhere and had
> commandline stability problems. This has changed and git it no longer
> makes sense to continually build this when the system installed version
> is likely sufficient.

Can this really be assumed? Recent bitbake use something like 

 | git remote add --mirror=fetch

The git version in RHEL 6 or Ubuntu 10 are too old for this and support
'--mirror' without a value only.


Enrico




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