Re: [yocto] SPDX 3 generation broken in Scarthgap?

["Yoann Congal" <yoann.congal@smile.fr>]

On Wed Oct 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM CEST, Anders Montonen via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 20. Oct 2026, at 21.18, Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On Tue Oct 20, 2026 at 7:08 PM CEST, Anders Montonen via lists.yoctoproject.org <http://lists.yoctoproject.org/> wrote:
>>> 1. Clone the scarthgap branch of the poky repository (HEAD and 5.0.20 seems to work identically)
>>> 2. Run "source oe-init-build-env"
>>> 3. Add the lines listed in the documentation to local.conf:
>>> 	INHERIT_DISTRO:remove = "create-spdx"
>>> 	INHERIT_DISTRO:append = " create-spdx-3.0”
>>> 4. Run “bitbake -k core-image-minimal”
>> 
>> This is the SPDX30Check.test_core_image_minimal testcase that runs as
>> part of the regular oe-selftest builds: eg:
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/?#/builders/48/builds/4875/steps/18/logs/stdio (line 1764)
>> 
>> But the test does not use INHERIT_DISTRO but :
>> INHERIT:remove = "create-spdx"
>> INHERIT += "create-spdx-3.0"
>> 
>> I think this is an issue because the poky DISTRO adds create-spdx to
>> INHERIT (not INHERIT_DISTRO) in poky.conf. This means that in your
>> config you have both create-spdx and create-spdx-3.0 in INHERIT, and
>> that would explain the below issue.
>> 
>> Does changing to INHERIT modification fixes you issue?
>
> That did the trick, thank you.

Good news!

> I see that there’s a difference in the
> documentation between the “Creating a Software Bill of Materials”
> chapter in the development tasks manual, and the documentation for the
> create-spdx class. The development tasks manual uses “INHERIT_DISTRO”,
> while the class documentation just uses “INHERIT”.

Could you contribute the yocto-docs patch to fix that?

Thanks!
-- 
Yoann Congal
Smile ECS