[OE-core] [PATCH v2] sanity.bbclass: support wildcards in SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS

[Olof Johansson]

On 14-03-03 19:17 +0100, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Olof Johansson <olof.johansson at axis.com> wrote:
> > With this change, you can use shell like globbing expressions (as
> > supported by Python's fnmatch) for entries in SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS.
> > This makes it possible to say that, e.g. "all Debian 7 Wheezy releases
> > are supported" with the entry "Debian-7.*".
> 
> I dont think its a good thing. We should be strict about it as we are.
> otherwise it can end up
> with bigger problems to save few  typing words

I don't really think we are strict about it today. Currently,
Ubuntu LTS (12.04) does not include point release number in its
lsb release name. Debian does (and I noticed a similar bump patch
was sent for CentOS recently). I suspect that in many cases, a
new Ubuntu point release contains about the same changes that the
Debian point release does.

The issue is that new point releases, at least in the case of
Debian, happens about every two months. These bumps are
integrated to master, backported to older branches, but it still
won't reach people working off releases immediately.

Even if Poky chooses not to adopt this, it would still be a nice
thing to have support for doing this internally for our
layer/distro.

-- 
olofjn