[yocto] Bumping all packages versions

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Mon Mar 20 10:22:36 PDT 2017


On 2017-03-20 16:52, Matthew Stanger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Yocto 1.7.1 and was wondering if there was a simple way to roll/bump all package versions. For example in
> every .bb I want to bump PV = $version higher. I'm trying to do this as we've designed our headless system to update
> using opkg but now we are struggling to find a simple way to update package versions, we're trying to stay away from
> manually doing it as there is a lot of room for error when touching so many packages. First, is there a way to brute
> force bump all package versions and 2nd is there a way to only bump packages that have changed code (like auto git hash
> diff or something) without manually bumping the PV version in the .bb? What is the proper way to handle you distro's
> versioning at the package level?

Are you using the PR server?  That's pretty much what it's for.

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