On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:16 -0600, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Tuesday 06 December 2011 15:59:39 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Paul Eggleton > > <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > We had some discussions [1] [2] about this last cycle but I don't feel > > > we > > > reached a proper conclusion on the list of tested distributions we want > > > to set (SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS) and I assume we want to support a few > > > more distros (latest versions of Fedora & Ubuntu, presumably?). I'd > > > like to update and re- post the patch [3] so we can close bug #1096 [4] > > > but for that we need to agree on the list. > > > > I'm fairly comprehensively testing something close to the edison 1.1.1 > > release on CentOS 5.5 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. We plan on adding more but > > maybe not in time for our next release. > > I can definitely see a compelling reason to mark CentOS 5.x as supported, but > the problem with it is it doesn't come with Python 2.6, so BitBake won't work > out of the box (actually right now it fails before it has a chance to show a > reasonable error message, which is even worse). We really need a concise set > of instructions on how to install the external python tarball, at the moment > I > don't think we have these.
EPEL has a python26 RPM which works perfectly well if you add a ~/bin/python symlink to python26. No need to compile python from scratch. -- Michael _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto