[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 14/16] distro-tracking: update data for some toolchain recipes

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Saul Wold <saul.wold at intel.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/2011 09:49 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 18:37 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>
>>> Op 19 okt. 2011, om 18:24 heeft Kamble, Nitin A het volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>> It will be too many recipes to list on one line, shall I split the
>>>> commit into multiple one for each recipe whose data is changed?
>>>
>>> Or per group, but saying "some toolchain recipes" is way too vague.
>>
>> Why do we have this distro tracking data in oe-core git anyway?  I'm not
>> entirely clear on what it's used by.
>>
> Phil:
>
> It's used by the tools that build http://packages.yoctoproject.org and to
> help recipe manage maintainer-ship and track what needs updating.

This could be managed via meta-data in packages I believe all that
information is there.

>
> Many upstreams we can't track if updates are required automagically, so we
> need a place to record when the last manual check was, also possible reasons
> why we should not update to newer versions, ...
>
> Sau!
>
>
>> p.
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