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.
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 yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
