[OE-core] [AUH] u-boot: upgrading to 2019.01 FAILED

[Marek Vasut]

On 1/18/19 10:39 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 08:10, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Next steps:
>>>     - apply the patch: git am 0001-u-boot-upgrade-2018.11-2019.01.patch
>>>     - check the changes to upstream patches and summarize them in the commit message,
>>>     - compile an image that contains the package
>>>     - perform some basic sanity tests
>>>     - amend the patch and sign it off: git commit -s --reset-author --amend
>>>     - send it to the appropriate mailing list
>>>
>>> Alternatively, if you believe the recipe should not be upgraded at this time,
>>> you can fill RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON in respective recipe file so that
>>> automatic upgrades would no longer be attempted.
>>>
>>> Please review the attached files for further information and build/update failures.
>>> Any problem please file a bug at https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Automated%20Update%20Handler
>>
>> Can AUH be fixed please ?
> 
> We have previously discussed this: fixing devtool to upgrade several
> recipes in a single transaction is non-trivial as it operates on one
> recipe at a time.

Can you elaborate what needs to be done to fix this ?

> Please try to accept that AUH is not perfect and
> take these emails as a reminder to do the version update (which you
> should, as the listed maintainer).

This kind of automated update seems like a perfect simple manual task
for a computer to do, so I'd prefer not to waste my time on it. I'm not
happy with "accepting that tooling is sub-par and thus do stuff
manually", I'd much rather see the tooling fixed so it can be useful.

> The attached patch is actually
> useful as a starting point, you only need to rename the other two .bb
> files to complete the update.
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Best regards,
Marek Vasut