Bug 3065

Summary:	Add support to check versions of host tools and only build of older
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Saul Wold <sgw>
Component:	configuration	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	bluelightning
Version:	1.3
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Saul Wold 2012-09-06 16:24:18 UTC

OE-Core has a requirement for certain versions of host utilities such as subversion, tar, git, ...  Add a check to ensure we have the correct version available or build it.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2012-09-11 10:33:22 UTC

We have git-replacement-native and tar-replacement-native that are already handled in this way; however I wouldn't have thought we would want to expand this list. We solve the issue otherwise by limiting our supported distribution list. 

What prompted this?

Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2017-06-13 11:10:55 UTC

We already support version checks in sanity.bbclass. Older version issues can be resolved with buildtools-tarball. We have no plans to support building the required tools in any other way.