Automatic Upgrade Helper Announcement

Hi all,

I'm glad to announce the enabling of Automatic Upgrade Helper (a.k.a. AUH), the AUH is a service that provides recipe upgrades and will be run on weekly basis.

If you are a maintainer (listed in [1]) you will receive AUH emails with Recipe upgrades when AUH detects that upgrade is needed.

The development of AUH continues with adding capabilities like buildhistory support and image testing for upgraded recipes planned for Yocto 1.9 release [2], contributions are welcome the code can be found at [3].

Any comment or concern please contact me.

Cheers,
alimon

[1] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
[2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?product=Maintenance%20Tools&component=Automated%20Update%20Handler
[3] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/auto-upgrade-helper/

Excellent news, thanks Anibal for working on this!

(one day I'll figure out where i-acute is on my keyboard)

Ross

I'm currently doing a related activity - going through oe-core recipes in alphabetical order, and making sure that upstream version information for them is correct.

I've found a few cases where the upstream check is performed on a stale directory (so the recipe is reported 'up to date' even though it's not), or the reported upstream version is totally bogus [1], or the upstream version is 'unknown' even though it can be retrieved with a correct entry in package_regex.inc. Expect patches to come this way soon.

[1] http://recipes.yoctoproject.org/rrs/recipedetail/155/

Alex