[oe] Alpha release of check-requirement.sh

[Behan Webster]

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 7:26 AM, Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 21:40 -0700, Behan Webster wrote:
>>> On Aug 9, 2017, at 7:22 AM, Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> in my opinion, this fits nicely into the oe-core, into the
>>> scripts/contrib folder.
>> 
>> Keeping it in script/contrib seems odd to me (horse before the cart). One of the requirements for OE is git (or tar) to actually get OE in the first place.
>> 
>> I see this as more something some one would run before cloning OE or Poky. It’s a replacement for needing to read a long HOWTO on a webpage to get started with OE or YP.
> 
> 
> this installation way can help
> 
> $ curl <path to the script inside git repo> | sh

Well, it would have to be bash (not sh), but that already works. I’m just not happy with that way of doing things. Piping arbitrary commands into bash has always been a terrible practice IMHO.

Again, remember there is more than one grouping of requirements, so parameters need to be passed in which is problematic with that style of running a script.

One of the reasons I have an —install option is so people have more control over what is done to their machine. I have people download it and run it because quite often people need to fix things and then rerun the script.

Behan