[yocto] Automatic upgrade helper

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 12 August 2014 17:48:25 Martin Jansa wrote:
> 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.

Not at the moment, but that's definitely something I agree we should add (and 
fairly quickly, it should be pretty trivial to do.)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre