[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] cve-update-db: New recipe to update CVE database

Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de
Fri Jun 21 13:01:30 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 01:29:18PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 12:11, <Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de> wrote:
> > This adds python3 urllib3 (python3-urllib3 in Debian) to build environment
> > dependencies. It's the first user of urllib3 in poky, AFAIK. Maybe
> > documentation could be updated too, e.g.
> > https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#brief-build-system-packages
> 
> Somehow I didn't notice it, thanks.
> 
> Pierre, can you rewrite this to use standard library instead of urllib3?

Also, the CVE db is updated using this custom task without link to
do_fetch, which means a fetchall task would not update the database for
off line NO_NETWORK builds.

Could the task be added as dependency to do_fetch() or are there some other
side effects?

-Mikko


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