[OE-core] [PATCH] prelink: fix upstream version check

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 10/13/2017 05:56 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 10/13/17 9:18 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>> Instead of reporting that we can update to a bogus version
>> report that upstream version is not known.
> 
> You do know that there are release branches for prelink right?
> 
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/prelink-cross/refs/heads
> 
> cross_prelink and master are both 'release' quality branches.
> 
> Anything put there is a new version.
> 
> 
> There is nothing for us to 'tag', since there are no formal versions.
> 
> 
> Should be easy enough for the system to compare the SRCREV to the top of
> cross_prelink.  If they don't match, an upgrade is needed.

The system currently supports only comparing tags, not comparing 
commits. I've filed a bug for it long time ago:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8133

and no progress happened. In the meantime, for projects where commit == 
release, the best we can do is to mark them as 'upstream version cannot 
be established'. For prelink, also an exclusion of a bogus tag is 
needed, so you, as the maintainer, won't get reminders to update to it.

Alex