Re: [PATCH 1/1] ncurses: Update to 5.9

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 04/06/2011 10:26 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com> wrote:
>> On 04/06/2011 10:05 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/05/2011 11:18 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The previous 5.7 release was relatively close to 5.8 due to it bringing
>>>>>> in a patch to sync with upstream work-in-progress.  We skip over the
>>>>>> 5.8 release and move to 5.9.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> there already are patches for 5.9 available too
>>>>> ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/ncurses-5.9.patch.gz
>>>>
>>>> Wrong link?  That reverse applies to ncurses 5.9 release. But
>>>> regardless, is ncurses something we need to be tracking top of tree for?
>>>>  It seems like we needed to for 5.7 since there had been a lot going on
>>>> without a release but that seems to have changed now.
>>>>
>>>
>>> those patches usually contain critical bug fixes including security updates
>>> so it will be of interest to keep track of it
>>
>> Well, it doesn't currently.  And while I agree we need to do a good job,
>> everywhere, of keeping track of security updates, I don't think we
>> should move back to depending on a site that frequently removes patches.
>>
> 
> yes. cache the patches like yocto did for 5.7 recipes

That still leaves the problem of there not being a valid patch there at
the moment.  And I still don't see why ncurses needs to be in the bucket
of recipes we track the scm for rather than relying on the latest stable
release.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation