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

[Mark Hatle]

On 10/16/17 5:22 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> 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.

didn't realize this hadn't been implemented in the system yet.  Definitely
something that should be.

--Mark

> Alex
>