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 1Q7dEL-0005Hu-Ch for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:37:49 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Q7dCI-0003rA-Tv from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:35:42 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-05.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.43]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:35:42 -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 17:35:41 -0700 Message-ID: <4D9D06D5.1020907@mentor.com> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:35:33 -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> <4D9C78F5.1090808@mentor.com> <4D9C9E75.1060203@mentor.com> <4D9CA452.1020205@mentor.com> <1302124601.22904.88.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1302124601.22904.88.camel@rex> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Apr 2011 00:35:42.0451 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9DCD430:01CBF4BB] 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: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:37:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/06/2011 02:16 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:35 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: >> On 04/06/2011 10:26 AM, Khem Raj wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Tom Rini wrote: >>>> On 04/06/2011 10:05 AM, Khem Raj wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Tom Rini wrote: >>>>>> On 04/05/2011 11:18 PM, 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> 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. > > It sounds like these patches are more like tracking an SCM rather than a > source of specific security patches or critical updates. > > I think it might be wise to note this location in the recipe as a > comment (can someone please send an updated patch) but I don't think we > should be including these patches by default, particular if upstream are > making regular releases again. I'll go v2 it -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation