On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Koen Kooi <k...@dominion.thruhere.net> wrote: > These might not be the appropiate lists, but I might reach a few of the > culprits. Over the years people have been doing 'apt get install bitbake' or > 'make install' to put bitbake into /usr/bin and after a few minutes to get on > irc/email/etc to complain that everything is suddenly broken. There are > checks for bitbake versions in the metadata, but it can (and will!) still > break with due to python path nastiness. > > So to every person packaging bitbake for their distro: stop doing that! > > If someone has a better suggestion to avoid this problem (more documentation > doesn't work), please speak up.
I certainly agree that documentation doesn't work (for the most part). But maybe it wouldn't hurt to put in a small note about this issue in the quick start guide(s)? Perhaps in the section where it is telling you what packages you need installed before starting, it could include a note to make sure to not have bitbake installed from your distro? _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
