On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 12:35 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 09:46:25AM +0100, > richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 10:20 +0800, Saini, Naveen Kumar wrote: > > ... > > > Should this be added to HOSTTOOLS instead so lfs files are always > > > fetched for packages that use it? > > > > No, that would mean everyone has to install it. > > > > I'm ok with adding it to HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL as soon as we have some > > mechanism in the fetcher or in recipes which detects lfs usage and > > hard > > errors if its present but git-lfs is not installed. > > > > That way its deterministic - it builds with git-lfs installed and > > errors if it is not. > > Is it OK that some packages are not buildable at all on supported > distributions?
We're talking about a non-core layer and that would be something for that layer's maintainers to decide. > 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. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core