[Buildroot] Tool to check packages updates

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Arnaud,

On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:29:27 +0100, arnaud aujon wrote:

> Some news about the update checking script.
> The results are now : 839 packages (this is not the real package
> number because I don't check some of them), 294 are up-to-date, 323
> can be bumped and 222 unknown.
> You can find the script (check-updates.py) and the result (out.html)
> here : http://intelibre.fr/buildroot/

Thanks! Starts looking really interesting. I haven't had a look at the
script for now, only the results.

A few comments:

 * For util-linux, current version is 2.23.2, and your script believes
   2.23 is more recent.

 * For bash, current version is 4.2, and your script believes version
   3.2 is more recent.

 * There seems to be an issue with libjpeg version detection.

 * The latest version detected for aumix is 2, while it should be 2.9.1.

 * One funny case: the latest version detected for tstools is
   "WindowsXP" :-)

 * There are several more problematic cases, but I guess many of them
   have the same cause.

Also, it would be nice if you could order the list of packages
alphabetically.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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