[Buildroot] pkg-stats support for external tree?
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Oct 15 08:17:54 UTC 2020
Hello,
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:49:30 +0000
Magnus Armholt <magnus.armholt at wapice.com> wrote:
> The cve-checker sounds exactly what we are looking for.
> We are still using the 2020.02.x release, so I havent notice it.
> I need to check it out.
>
> Actually, i was about to submit a patch for the pkg-stats which adds the functionality to parse the package list from the manifest file, but now there is no need to do that =)
>
> The CVE listing in the pkg-stats output is a very (if not the most) important feature.
> The pkg-stats is also very useful as a reminder to update the packages (current version vs latest version).
> This is the main reason why I was asking about the support for external tree, so we get a CI reminder to update our project specific packages when new versions are available.
Perhaps we should changes things a bit and simple make "pkg-stats"
capable of generating its output based on *all* packages or only on the
packages enabled in your current configuration.
However, I am wondering whether the "latest upstream version"
information for each package really makes a lot of sense in your case.
If you are using the LTS branch 2020.02.x, then inevitably, lots of
packages will be older than there latest upstream release: you're not
using Buildroot master, so packages obviously will not be the latest.
But that's also what you want by using an LTS release of Buildroot: to
not update packages to keep your well-tested and production-ready
system stable, while benefiting from security updates/fixes.
So to me, the "latest upstream version" information really only makes
sense for the pkg-stats on all Buildroot packages, i.e a tool for the
Buildroot community/maintainers rather than a tool for Buildoot
end-users.
Or do you see it differently?
Thomas
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