From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7YJn-0002Un-2U for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:23:09 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Q7YHc-0001eH-F6 from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:20:52 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-05.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.43]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:18:43 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.151] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-05 (147.34.97.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.270.1; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:20:51 -0700 Message-ID: <4D9CBD0B.3090608@mentor.com> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:20:43 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <95d636004deffc0d6473c67ee9b5ce62937dc085.1302050252.git.tom_rini@mentor.com> <1302115114.22904.77.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1302115114.22904.77.camel@rex> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Apr 2011 19:18:43.0037 (UTC) FILETIME=[716890D0:01CBF48F] Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ncurses: Update to 5.9 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:23:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/06/2011 11:38 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:18 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Rini 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 > > Can someone summarise what the benefits of these patches are? I'm > trying to figure out whether we lose anything due to this upgrade or > not... The patches we applied to 5.7 are part of the 5.8 release and 5.9 of course replaces 5.8. The invisible-island.net patch sets are things taken from the official source repo and put out there for use. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation