[yocto] Automatic upgrade helper

[Martin Jansa]

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
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