On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > asked about this once upon a time ... are there any other > possibilities for adding to ASSUME_PROVIDED in local.conf.sample, > given that there are surely more native utilities that are fairly safe > by now? > > for example, it's still weird that current default ASSUME_PROVIDED > includes bzip2 but not gzip, especially since the quick start guide: > > https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html > > lists *both* of them as required on your build host. > > it also seems odd that that list includes git but not subversion. > anyway, you get the idea.
may times utilities have bugs or undesired behavior for OE so this list is dynamic and sometimes not all distro carry a certain version which OE expects and there are ABI/format changes as it happened between svn 1.6 and 1.7 > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto