[oe] Updating libtiff
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Thu Oct 7 17:14:44 UTC 2010
Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:46:06AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm looking to update libtiff to cover some security issues in the
>> version we ship, and I noticed something funny about how we do it today.
>> Currently tiff_3.9.2.bb sets PV to 3.9.2+4.0.0beta5 and grabs and
>> builds 4.0.0beta5. While it's possible that in the past 3.9.2 was
>> intended to be the last 3.9.x, it wasn't.
>>
>> I think we should go with:
>> - Add tiff_4.0.0beta6.bb which should be compatible with beta5 and will
>> get upgrades right.
>> - Add tiff_3.9.4.bb as well, in case someone wants to stay on the
>> released line.
>>
>> Anyone see a problem with that?
>
> Isn't PV="4.0.0" < PV="4.0.0beta5"?
>
> Then it would be better to stay with 3.9.2+4.0.0beta* sheme for easy
> upgrade path to 4.0.0 release.
>
> at least that's the reason why I have ie:
> KERNEL_RELEASE = "2.6.36-rc7"
> OLD_KERNEL_RELEASE = "2.6.35"
> PV = "${OLD_KERNEL_RELEASE}+${KERNEL_RELEASE}+gitr${SRCPV}"
Ah right. But the problem is that we're more like back in the "not
quite 2.6.0" days of the kernel. Unless we just skip out on doing 3.9.4
itself, which I guess is possible.
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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