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

[Saul Wold]

On 10/19/2011 10:00 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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.
>
Khem,

I am not quite following, are you suggesting incorporating the 
distro_tracking_fields info into the final packages (this word is 
overloaded sometimes), or adding it the recipe bb files?

If adding it to the recipe bb files, this was discussed and deemed 
inappropriate, as it's too dynamic and would clutter the recipe.

Sau!
>>
>> 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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