[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] core: check hashes of license files

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Rahul, All,

On 2017-06-19 22:47 +0530, Rahul Bedarkar spake thusly:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hello All!
> >
> > This small series is a proposal to check the hashes of the license files
> > during legal-info, to catch the packages whose license changes but where
> > the text of the new license is in the same file.
> 
> Thanks for this series. Checking hashes of the license files during
> legal-info stage looks logical but we discussed about doing that after
> downloading sources so that change in license file is noticed early
> (as a part of build test after version bump).

It is not possible to do at download time. It can only be done after
the package has been extracted and patched.

That is why, when you run legal-info on a non-built (but configured)
tree, you'll notice that Buildroot extracts and patches the packages
before saving their legal-info.

Besides, if one uses the support/scripts/test-pkg script to test the
version bump, then legal-info is run by the script.

So, I still believe it is better done during legal-info.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> Regards,
> Rahul
> 
> >
> > This was suggested by Rahul recently:
> >     http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2017-June/194425.html
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
> >
> >
> > The following changes since commit 859764ac39c18c6aaabbb6a1a47f2fa2e5793044
> >
> >   linux-headers: bump 4.{1, 4, 9, 11}.x series (2017-06-17 16:17:04 +0200)
> >
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> >   git://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot.git
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 41013c99543173da1ec547219c7f67e52d323a40
> >
> >   docs/manual: document hashes for license files (2017-06-18 09:59:06 +0200)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Yann E. MORIN (3):
> >       core/pkg-util: pass package directory and name when saving license files
> >       core/pkg-utils: check hashes of license files
> >       docs/manual: document hashes for license files
> >
> >  Makefile                                  |  2 +-
> >  docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> >  package/pkg-generic.mk                    |  2 +-
> >  package/pkg-utils.mk                      | 11 ++++++++---
> >  4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
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