[yocto] is distro_tracking_fields.inc actually used?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Martin Jansa wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:43:08PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   from https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Distro_Tracking
> >
> > "The Distro Tracking Fields
> > (meta/conf/distro/include/distro_tracking_fields.inc) is a location
> > for sharing information about the status of recipes and tracking
> > version information. Not all of this information can be generated
> > automatically (yet), so the manual editing is needed."
> >
> >   i don't see that file so what's the story?
>
> Why don't you use git log if you're interested in stories?
>
> git log -- meta/conf/distro/include/distro_tracking_fields.inc
> commit e8808c85a6bba8422cd82631b2bbc367543e4cdd
> Author: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 12 07:03:27 2012 -0700
>
>     distro_tracking_fields: move to meta-yocto as seperate files
>
>     We are going to take a phased approach of breaking up the
>     distro_tracking_fields, first is to remove it from oe-core,
>     then create new files in meta-yocto.  We are doing this because
>     the distro_tracking_fields is getting unweildly and some of
>     the data can be part of a burn down list instead continually
>     stored, thus it will get split up.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
> ...
>
> ./meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/upstream_tracking.inc

  ah, quite right, my fault for not poking further.  in any event, it
would seem that that wiki page could use some updating.

rday

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