[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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