On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> 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. > > Did you need to perform any other special steps on either of these > distributions?
I'm not 100% sure what I did to bring up our CentOS box but I think all I needed was to install python 2.6. -M _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
