Re: Errors while tring rpi-test-image for rpi3

[Petter Mabacker <petter@technux.se>]

On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 09:28 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Petter Mabacker <petter@technux.se>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 15:10 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> > 
> > > ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'libav' (but
> > > 
> > > /u/hope_poky/poky_for_mon/poky/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-
> > > multimedia/omxplayer/omxplayer_git.bb
> > > DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
> > > ERROR: ffmpeg PROVIDES libav but was skipped: because it has a
> > > restricted license not whitelisted in LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST
> > 
> > Searching the Yocto reference manual for this term will lead to
> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html
> > #enabling-commercially-licensed-recipes
> > which should have the details you need to resolve the issue.
> > 
> > Jussi
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This info is actually also present in the meta-raspberrypi
> > documentation, in
> > 'docs/extra-apps.md':
> > 
> > $ cat docs/extra-apps.md
> > # Extra apps
> > 
> > ## omxplayer
> > 
> > omxplayer depends on libav which has a commercial license. So in
> > order to be
> > able to compile omxplayer you will need to whiteflag the commercial
> > license in your local.conf:
> > 
> >     LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST = "commercial"
> > 
> 
> it is better to be cautious about it and enable what you want and
> ensure you can do so from licesning perspective.
> 
> LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST_append = " commercial_libomxil "
> 
> e.g. will enable only for libomxil and keep adding to this list the
> licenses you want to white list.
> 
I agree, it sounds resonable. We should probably update the above
mentioned doc (docs/extra-apps.md) with this info..

BR Petter 
> > 
> > 
> > To make full use of the documentation I recommend that you are
> > generating
> > the documentation within docs/ in for example html format and make
> > use of
> > the searching functionality in there.
> > 
> > 
> > BR Petter
> > 
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