[Buildroot] Tool to check packages updates

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, arnaud aujon <arnaud.aujon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I updated the script to check package updates. It improved a lot :)
> Current result are 841 packages checked : 372 up to date, 315 can be updated
> and 154 are unknown.
> It's still in developpement, there is a lot of thinks that can be improved :
>   - handle svn
>   - add a 'status' column
>   - improve checking of sourceforge project, currently I retrieve last
> version of the project using a /latest url, but it's not working when the
> project provides several tools or libraries.
>   - for projects using git, if the version is a hash, I retrieve HEAD hash
> and compare it to the version, but I'm not checking if the hash represent a
> tag (ie, most of the time a stable release)
>   - code refactoring to avoid code duplication
>

Just a quick read-through of the output, here are some packages that
seem to be incorrectly marked as 'to be updated'

(package current new)
grantlee 0.2.0 v0.1.1
icu 51.2 2-Win64-msvc10    (win64?)
audiofile 0.3.6 68k.org/audiofile-0.3.6
bcusdk 0.0.5 examples
bonnie 1.03e .03c
celt051 0.5.1.3 060_tools_win32
(there are more)

Best regards,
Thomas