[OE-core] Package Upgrading for 1.8

[Saul Wold]

On 10/30/2014 12:07 PM, Paul Barker wrote:
> On 30 October 2014 18:21, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Just a reminder now that master is open again for patches, now is a great
>> time to consider doing package Updates.  Based on some rough estimates from
>> 1.7 we did around 300 updates from 34 contributors, that got us about 73%
>> packages upgrades.
>>
>> We currently have about 180 packages due to be updated based on the Package
>> Reporting from this last week, about 65 of those where not updated in 1.7 so
>> should be given some priority (see attached file), there are also 10 that
>> need maintainers, let me know if you are interested in any of them.
>
> I don't see opkg, opkg-utils or libarchive in those emails or on
> http://packages.yoctoproject.org/upgradepkgname. Any particular reason
> they're missing?
>
I will look into that, could be that the code in the fetcher is not 
catching opkg correctly, we are working on updating that code to do a 
better job.

> I'll send an upgrade to opkg v0.2.3 tomorrow, then further upgrades
> once they're available.
>
> Once I've merged a patch by Jian Liu to opkg-utils there will likely
> be an opkg-utils SRCREV update.
>
> I have my eye on libarchive as well as I'm using it within the
> development versions of opkg. I'm subscribed to their announcement
> mailing list so I'll know when a new release is made.
>
Thanks, saw your email earlier, thanks your hard work on the OPKG* know 
it's appreciated.

Sau!


> Cheers,
>