On Wednesday 21 November 2012 23:01:22 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- > >boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton > >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:51 PM > >To: Robert P. J. Day > >Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > >Subject: Re: [yocto] inconsistent pages out there for setting up your > >yocto dev host > > > >On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how > >> > >> to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is > >> pretty clearly contradictory information. > >> > >> as one example, there's this page on getting started with OE: > >> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Getting_started > > > >I produced this page recently; FWIW I also came up with the pared-down > >package > >lists that went into the Quick Start Guide which this page borrows. How > >is > >this contradictory if it uses the same information? > > > >> that claims to steal from a number of sources including the yocto QS > >> guide, but look at the packages one is instructed to install on that > >> page, particularly under fedora: python, perl, git, and so on. > > > >So I don't recall exactly how perl got on that list; but python and git > >are > >absolutely required on the host. That's why they're in ASSUME_PROVIDED. > > Paul - Should I remove perl from the essentials list for fedora and centos?
Let's leave it there for the moment - you can't have git installed on either distro without perl anyway so it's not going to make too much difference. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
