On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day [off-list ref] wrote:

$ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core oe-core
$ cd oe-core
$ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake bitbake

the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host
has all essential S/W for OE work.  i know that's documented in the
yocto QS guide here:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html

is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
installed"?

 is there anything else at all that a user might want to verify
before starting to build their first image?   nothing leaps to mind,
but i just want to make sure i'm not missing anything.

The sanity bbclass checks for most things already, at least if you get
past the initial setup and can actually run bitbake :) Which doesn't
require much, other than configuration and python 2.6 or newer as
'python'.
-- 
Christopher Larson