Grant - I will check this out. I am going to use this manual - https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.6.1/brief-yoctoprojectqs/brief-yoctoprojectqs.html .
Scott On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:33 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm new to Yocto and looking for a good "getting started" > tutorial. I've tried > > > https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.6/brief-yoctoprojectqs/brief-yoctoprojectqs.html > > and immediately ran into mistakes on the very first step: > > Use Git to Clone Poky¶ > Once you complete the setup instructions for your machine, you need to > get a copy of the Poky repository on your build host. Use the following > commands to clone the Poky repository and then checkout the yocto-2.6 > release: > > $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky > Cloning into 'poky'... > remote: Counting objects: 361782, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (87100/87100), done. > remote: Total 361782 (delta 268619), reused 361439 (delta 268277) > Receiving objects: 100% (361782/361782), 131.94 MiB | 6.88 MiB/s, > done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (268619/268619), done. > Checking connectivity... done. > $ git checkout tags/yocto-2.5 -b my-yocto-2.5 > > The previous Git checkout command creates a local branch named > my-yocto-2.6. [...] > > It does? The 'git clone' command seems to be OK, but the second command > fails: > > $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky > Cloning into 'poky'... > remote: Counting objects: 428632, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (101203/101203), done. > remote: Total 428632 (delta 320463), reused 428532 (delta 320363) > Receiving objects: 100% (428632/428632), 153.01 MiB | 1.33 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (320463/320463), done. > $ git checkout tags/yocto-2.5 -b my-yocto-2.5 > fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /) > Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not > set). > > I re-tried the second command, changing the version from 2.5 to 2.6, > and that didn't work either: > > $ git checkout tags/yocto-2.6 -b my-yocto-2.6 > fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /) > Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not > set). > > It looks like there's a missing 'cd poky' command that needs to be > inserted before the 'git checkout', and the checkout command needs to > be changed from 2.5 to 2.6. > > Has anybody tried this tutorial recently to see if it actually works? > > Is there a better getting started doc? > > -- > Grant > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >
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