[Buildroot] Tool to check packages updates

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 19:23:34 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:58 PM, arnaud aujon <arnaud.aujon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, you're right, see the script bellow.
> What need to be done is evaluate variable PACKAGE_SITE and PACKAGE_VERSION,
> for the moment it doesn't evalute things like
> PACKAGE_VERSION = $(VERSION_MAJOR).xx so I need to write a small recursive
> function to retrieve the real value.
> I also need to work on package source hosted with a CVS (mainly git and
> svn).
>

make knows exactly how to evaluate such variables, so instead of
trying to do this from a script, isn't it possible to use the output
of 'make printvars' ? This prints _all_ the relevant variables but you
could filter on _SOURCE or _SITE to get what you need and base your
script on that.

Best regards,
Thomas


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