[OE-core] Build error on Fedora 21: "Unsupported version of git (2.1.0)"

[Bryan Evenson]

Bruce,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 1:14 PM
> To: Bryan Evenson
> Cc: Openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Build error on Fedora 21: "Unsupported version of git
> (2.1.0)"
> 
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Bryan Evenson
> <bevenson at melinkcorp.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'm transitioning to a new laptop and I've installed Fedora 21 on the new
> one.  I'm trying to build for the first time and I'm running into some issues.
> >
> > I'm still on the dylan branch.  I have an image that is based on core-image-
> minimal with a few additional packages.  When I attempt to build my image, it
> fails when attempting to patch the Linux kernel.  The failure message in
> log.do_patch says:
> >
> >         Unsupported version of git (2.1.0)
> >         [ERROR] unable to complete push
> >         pending patches are:
> >         Unsupported version of git (2.1.0)
> >         ERROR. could not update git tree
> >         ERROR. Could not apply patches for at91sam9x5ek.
> >
> > So I'm assuming what happened was the build system's version of Git was
> used for the initial kernel checkout but the host's version of Git is being used
> in the do_patch step.  However, I haven't a clue what to do about it.  Any
> ideas?
> 
> That older set of kern tools used guilt to push / maintain the kernel patch
> queue. guilt unfortunately has a version check, and if the version hasn't been
> added, it aborts.
> 
> So you'd need to patch guilt to add that version into its case statement (and
> then hope that no other behaviours have changed to break the commands
> guilt is running).

Thanks, that seems to have solved this problem.  But, I keep running into other build problems.  I've cherry-picked a few commits to fix issues so far, but I'm getting a few more problems that are less obvious.  I'd been working on updating to daisy and was hoping to get dylan to build on the new laptop first to make sure the built image functions okay.  I may need to go the other way around...

Thanks,
Bryan

> 
> Bruce
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
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