[Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions
Thomas De Schampheleire
patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 15:01:48 UTC 2013
Hi Thomas,
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
[..]
>
>> > *) To make this "bumping" effort a bit more systematic, I believe it
>> > would be useful to introduce an infrastructure in Buildroot to
>> > automatically check if upstream has a new package. In many cases,
>> > the upstream site has a directory with all the different versions
>> > of the tarball, so checking if there's a newer one in an automated
>> > way would be possible. If we do this for many packages, then we can
>> > run a script every day, and check if there are new upstream
>> > releases available. Debian has such a mechanism with the 'watch'
>> > mechanism (see https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/). Gentoo has
>> > the euscan utility (see https://github.com/iksaif/euscan). It would
>> > be nice having something like this, that we could integrate in the
>> > Buildroot per-package stats at
>> > http://autobuild.buildroot.org/stats/ to get a clear vision of
>> > which packages need to be upgraded. If one of you is interested in
>> > doing this, it'd be great!
>
> Any opinion about this? I believe it would make more sense to invest
> time doing this than doing many many bumps on all packages.
I assume you're only talking about a way to automatically _detect_
that there are new versions of a given package, and the actual update
in buildroot is still done manually, right?
Best regards,
Thomas
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