[Buildroot] Notifications about outdated packages

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello François,

Thanks for your feedback!

On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:03:12 +0200
François Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org> wrote:

> release-monitoring.org has a CPAN backend.
> We have currently 110 packages using the perl/cpan infrastructure.
> The current http://autobuild.buildroot.net/stats/ shows 4 packages found by
> `distro`, others are in the status 'Not found'.
> 
> I think that 110 packages could be found by `guess`, because with the
> perl/cpan infrastructure, we have the distribution name.
> For example, with perl-foo-bar:
>      PERL_FOO_BAR_NAME=perl-foo-bar
>      PERL_FOO_BAR_DISTNAME=Foo-Bar (used by the target perl-foo-bar-upgrade)
> 
> So, the search must use *_DISTNAME instead of *_NAME

This indeed seems to work for a number of packages.

> Note: the luarocks infrastructure supplies an equivalent which is named
> *_NAME_UPSTREAM.

I've tried with a few luarocks packages, and it didn't give any useful
results with release-monitoring.org.

But for the Perl case, what we could do is:

 - pkg-stats extracts the DIST_NAME variable (it already extracts
   VERSION, LICENSE and LICENSE_FILES), and store it in some "upstream
   name" member of the Package class.

 - pkg-stats then uses this "upstream name" if available when querying
   release-monitoring.org.

François, since Victor is about to finish his internship (end of this
week), he won't have the time to work on this. Do you want to work on
it and propose a patch ?

Thanks!

Thomas
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