[oe] oe-core and mercurial

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Chris Elston <celston at katalix.com> wrote:
> I'm just getting started with oe (specifically oe-core) and ran into a
> confusing problem that took me a minute or two to sort out.
>
> The instructions here (which I think are for oe, not core)
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/OEandYourDistro don't mention that
> you need mercurial, whereas the page here:
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Required_software
> does.


that page needs updating

>
> I believe that this doesn't matter for oe because it has the
> mercurial-native recipe, but this isn't the case for oe-core.
>
> Admittedly sanity.bbclass does check for the presence of hg and warn
> that it's missing. I initially didn't see this message and as far as I
> could tell my bitbake command returned success having only built the
> native recipes.
>
> So the question is, does the OEandYourDistro page need updating for
> oe-core? In which case, where do I request a wiki account to do so?

yes send request to Tom King. account creation is protected for spamming
reasons.

 Or
> alternatively, should oe-core include the mercurial-native recipe to
> cover this case?  Discuss :-)
>

Well it can but usually OE does not need a captive version of mercurial
so it can use the one installed on the build machine.

> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
>
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