[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: add git-lfs to HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:37:45AM +0100, richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 12:35 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > Your "everyone has to install it" worry misses the much bigger
> > problem 
> > that git-lfs is a relatively new tool and not available in
> > distributions 
> > like Debian 9 or Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> Someone could certainly write a native recipe for lfs and add that as a
> dependency which would also solve this problem. I'd be quite happy to
> see that and it would neatly solve the problems.

This was also my first thought.

It stops being neat once you realize that it requires packaging
a 3 digit number of Go libraries.

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

cu
Adrian

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