[OE-core] [PATCH v2 1/1] buildtools-tarball: restore missing git tools

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 05 December 2014 16:30:44 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Paul Eggleton
> 
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Since the split out of git-perltools, some git tools (such as "git am",
> > "git send-email" and "git-submodule") have no longer been part of the
> > buildtools. We need these, so add them back in.
> > 
> > However, adding git-perltools to buildtools triggers perl itself being
> > brought into buildtools as well, and we don't want that; but we also
> > don't want to have to hack the git recipe or indeed anything else that
> > starts depending on perl. Thus, add a dummy package which gets installed
> > in its place, in a separate package architecture that is only enabled
> > for buildtools to ensure it doesn't start appearing in place of
> > nativesdk-perl anywhere else.
> > 
> > Fixes [YOCTO #7033].
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> 
> This dummy thing looks like a hack to me :-(

Perhaps - I'm all ears for an alternative solution, but it absolutely has to 
be fixed, and soon. Shipping an incomplete git (or incomplete perl) in 
buildtools basically defeats a major part of having the thing in the first 
place.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre