[Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Oct 13 15:06:24 UTC 2013


Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:01:48 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> > 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?

Of course. But this way, we would have some kind of "dashboard" showing
us which packages might benefit from a bump.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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