[OE-core] What is the strategy to update eglibc?

[Ni Qingliang]

it looks like there is 2.14 bb file already, why the default eglibc stay
on 2.13?

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 10:32 +0800, Kang Kai wrote:
> On 2011年11月17日 05:38, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Kang Kai<Kai.Kang at windriver.com>  wrote:
> >> Hi Saul,
> >>
> >> I just want to update eglibc but eglibc is using its 2.14 branch and use svn
> >> commit revision "15225" as current version. Of course it is behind the
> >> latest svn revision, but I don't quit sure about which is the right revision
> >> to update eglibc.
> 
> Hi Khem,
> > since release branches of eglibc only get bug fixes in ideal case it
> > should be good at any revision. However if we have bug
> > fixes that dont affect us immediately we do not tend to update
> > the revision. If you find that some bug fix thats applied upstream is
> > needed it certainly can be a reason to bump up srcrev given we do some
> > level of build and runtime testing
> > with new revision.
> 
> Thanks very much for your detailed explanation.
> I check the changelog of eglibc 2.13 branch(latest is 15508), and they
> are some tiny updates except the revision 15226 that is same with
> current patch
> 
> glibc_bug_fix_12454.patch
> 
> And I made the rough tests of image-sato of qemu-x86 and qemu-arm and
> results are fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Kai
> >
> >> Could you give me some guide? Thank you!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Kai
> >>
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