From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:56:04 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions In-Reply-To: References: <20131014113000.73ca82bf@skate> <1642454622.8785613.1381743494806.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> <20131014120410.1b4c05fb@skate> Message-ID: <20131014155604.35644c62@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Arnaud, On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:58:19 +0200, arnaud aujon wrote: > I'm interested in developing an automatic way to know if a package needs to > be bumped. > I'm a new contributor to buildroot (just sent a patch to add a new > package, well 3 patches because I had trouble with git send-email...), if > no one else have time to do it, I'll be happy to help Buildroot this way. Until now, nobody has volunteered to work on this, so if you're interested, feel free to start prototyping things. I believe a helper script (in Python?), called from the Buildroot makefiles, is probably the best way: doing all this logic purely in make might be too complicated. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com