Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] classes-global/license: create -lic package from PKGD, not D

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2026-08-27 at 17:52 +0200, roman.nazarenko via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Roman Nazarenko <roman.nazarenko@leica-geosystems.com>
> 
> do_package and do_populate_sysroot are siblings - both are only ordered
> "after do_install" - so they run concurrently. With
> LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE=1, perform_packagecopy:prepend wrote the
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM texts straight into ${D}${datadir}/licenses/${PN}/,
> mutating the very tree do_populate_sysroot stages with find|cpio:
> 
>   | DEBUG: Executing shell function sysroot_stage_all
>   | cpio: ./licenses/libmodule/LICENSE: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>   | WARNING: exit code 2 from a shell command.
> 
> copy_license_files() removes and re-links an already existing
> destination, so a file can be listed by find and gone by the time cpio
> stats it.
> 
> Write into ${PKGD} from a perform_packagecopy:append instead. By then
> ${D} is complete and untouched, and ${PKGD} is a private copy that
> do_populate_sysroot never reads. Package contents, on-target paths and
> ownership are unchanged - do_package is a fakeroot task, so the
> os.chown() in copy_license_files() still applies. As a side effect the
> license texts stop being staged into every target recipe's sysroot,
> which they had no business being in.
> 
> This changes perform_packagecopy, so do_package basehashes change for
> every recipe; expect a one-time repackage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Nazarenko <roman.nazarenko@leica-geosystems.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes-global/license.bbclass | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes-global/license.bbclass b/meta/classes-global/license.bbclass
> index 86c9ee5878..1d266dd25d 100644
> --- a/meta/classes-global/license.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes-global/license.bbclass
> @@ -38,14 +38,15 @@ python do_populate_lic() {
>      oe.qa.exit_if_errors(d)
>  }
>  
> -# it would be better to copy them in do_install:append, but find_license_files is python
> -python perform_packagecopy:prepend () {
> +# Write into PKGD, not D: do_populate_sysroot stages D concurrently and races
> +# with the remove-then-relink in copy_license_files().
> +python perform_packagecopy:append () {
>      enabled = oe.data.typed_value('LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE', d)
>      if d.getVar('CLASSOVERRIDE') == 'class-target' and enabled:
>          lic_files_paths = find_license_files(d)
>  
> -        # LICENSE_FILES_DIRECTORY starts with '/' so os.path.join cannot be used to join D and LICENSE_FILES_DIRECTORY
> -        destdir = d.getVar('D') + os.path.join(d.getVar('LICENSE_FILES_DIRECTORY'), d.getVar('PN'))
> +        # LICENSE_FILES_DIRECTORY starts with '/' so os.path.join cannot be used to join PKGD and LICENSE_FILES_DIRECTORY
> +        destdir = d.getVar('PKGD') + os.path.join(d.getVar('LICENSE_FILES_DIRECTORY'), d.getVar('PN'))
>          copy_license_files(lic_files_paths, destdir)
>          add_package_and_files(d)
>  }

The comment you removed does still apply. Could you instead try making
this a do_install postfunc? I suspect those didn't exist when this was
written.

Cheers,

Richard