From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga12.intel.com ([143.182.124.36] helo=azsmga102.ch.intel.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RGaIw-0007H4-HA for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:51:50 +0200 Received: from mail-wy0-f180.google.com ([74.125.82.180]) by mga14.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 19 Oct 2011 10:45:57 -0700 Received: by wyg24 with SMTP id 24so1978602wyg.25 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.12.19 with SMTP id v19mr2858828wbv.64.1319046356085; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.6.18.230] (c-71-193-189-117.hsd1.wa.comcast.net. [71.193.189.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k26sm11103410wbo.16.2011.10.19.10.45.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9F0CCF.3070404@intel.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:51 -0700 From: Saul Wold Organization: Intel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer References: <436a9b443962036ff35a5ffd86d80ad44350d5f2.1319012721.git.sgw@linux.intel.com> <758B37BA-B417-4B39-BF1C-0CEC613F067D@dominion.thruhere.net> <9DA5872FEF993D41B7173F58FCF6BE94E2F42EE2@orsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com> <9DA5872FEF993D41B7173F58FCF6BE94E2F42F6A@orsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com> <158EAB1C-0C40-4C5B-B47A-A4B8C90A2055@dominion.thruhere.net> <1319042998.22985.257.camel@phil-desktop> <4E9F018D.7030703@intel.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Phil Blundell Subject: Re: [CONSOLIDATED PULL 14/16] distro-tracking: update data for some toolchain recipes 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, 19 Oct 2011 17:51:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/19/2011 10:00 AM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Saul Wold wrote: >> On 10/19/2011 09:49 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 18:37 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>> >>>> Op 19 okt. 2011, om 18:24 heeft Kamble, Nitin A het volgende geschreven: >>>>> >>>>> It will be too many recipes to list on one line, shall I split the >>>>> commit into multiple one for each recipe whose data is changed? >>>> >>>> Or per group, but saying "some toolchain recipes" is way too vague. >>> >>> Why do we have this distro tracking data in oe-core git anyway? I'm not >>> entirely clear on what it's used by. >>> >> Phil: >> >> It's used by the tools that build http://packages.yoctoproject.org and to >> help recipe manage maintainer-ship and track what needs updating. > > This could be managed via meta-data in packages I believe all that > information is there. > Khem, I am not quite following, are you suggesting incorporating the distro_tracking_fields info into the final packages (this word is overloaded sometimes), or adding it the recipe bb files? If adding it to the recipe bb files, this was discussed and deemed inappropriate, as it's too dynamic and would clutter the recipe. Sau! >> >> Many upstreams we can't track if updates are required automagically, so we >> need a place to record when the last manual check was, also possible reasons >> why we should not update to newer versions, ... >> >> Sau! >> >> >>> p. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Openembedded-core mailing list >>> Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org >>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-core mailing list >> Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org >> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core