On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 04:19:41PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to announce the immediate availability of the Automatic Upgrade > Helper, a tool for automating the task of upgrading recipes when a new > upstream release occurs. It utilises the build system to check if a new > version of the software built by a particular recipe is available, and if it > is, it will attempt to upgrade the recipe to build that new version. The > outcome of the process is emailed to the maintainer of the recipe along with > a > patch to do the upgrade, so that they can send the patch to be merged (if the > build succeeded with no warnings) or develop the patch further if problems > occurred.
Does it also check buildhistory output for unexpected changes in packaging? If it doesn't it should ask maintainer to do so manually before submitting the patch. > The tool is available in the following repository: > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/auto-upgrade-helper/ > > Currently it builds upon distrodata.bbclass in order to do the upstream > version checking, but in future we'd like to make better use of BitBake's > fetcher to do this and also move some of the additional metadata out of inc > files and into recipes as appropriate. There's probably other things we could > do to make the tool more flexible in future as well. Feedback / contributions > welcome. > > (Thanks to Laurentiu Palcu & Marius Avram who did all of the work on this > tool.) > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yo...@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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