Re: [PATCH] conf/bitbake.conf: default HOMEPAGE to blank instead of unknown

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

On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 12:17 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> The default value for HOMEPAGE of "unknown" has been in place since the
> early OE-Classic days, but it doesn't really make sense - "unknown" is
> not a valid URL and it just means we have to explicitly check for this
> hardcoded string if we're displaying the value in some form of UI, such
> as Toaster. There is some code in the unmaintained oelint.bbclass to
> check for this value, presumably on the assumption that the recipe will
> explicitly set it to "" if there really isn't a homepage, but looking at
> recipes in OE-Core and meta-oe suggests that we haven't been using this
> convention for some time (with one exception in the latter) and it's
> rather uncommon these days to have no URL to associate with a recipe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index 57668e1..4fb6a1c 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ This package contains documentation."
>  
>  LICENSE = "INVALID"
>  MAINTAINER = "OE-Core Developers <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>"
> -HOMEPAGE = "unknown"
> +HOMEPAGE = ""
>  

Perhaps we just shouldn't set it at all in bitbake.conf and let recipes
elect to set it?

Cheers,

Richard