[Buildroot] Bumping packages: some comments/suggestions

[arnaud aujon]

All right, I will start working on a python script. I keep you in touch.


2013/10/14 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

> Arnaud,
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:58:19 +0200, arnaud aujon wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in developing an automatic way to know if a package needs
> to
> > be bumped.
> > I'm a new contributor to buildroot (just sent a patch to add a new
> > package,  well 3 patches because I had trouble with git send-email...),
> if
> > no one else have time to do it, I'll be happy to help Buildroot this way.
>
> Until now, nobody has volunteered to work on this, so if you're
> interested, feel free to start prototyping things. I believe a helper
> script (in Python?), called from the Buildroot makefiles, is probably
> the best way: doing all this logic purely in make might be too
> complicated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>
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