Re: [dora]Re: Failure in license.bbclass

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 17:09 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> 
> On 03/13/2014 05:00 PM, Jussi Laako wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 03/11/2014 12:40 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
> >> It is used for fixing this bug:
> >> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5572
> >>
> >> Enalbe COPY_LIC_MANIFEST and COPY_LIC_DIRS: No kernel license is
> >> installed in image
> >>
> >> But it used the "oe-pkgdata-util lookup-recipe" which is only on master
> >> branch,
> >> I think that we'd better:
> >>
> >> 1) Revert this commit, then it works with minor problems.
> >>
> >> Or
> >>
> >> 2) Fix the "oe-pkgdata-util lookup-recipe" on dora.
> >
> > With core-image-minimal spiced up with couple of packages, there were quite many
> > license directories left empty, so it requires fair amount of manual work to
> > rectify the situation. So it is far more than just the kernel.
> >
> > For example any libraries coming from util-linux, plus any of the gcc runtimes
> > (libgcc, etc). There are many packages where source name doesn't match with the
> > produced packages.
> >
> > Since BSPs tend to lag behind release schedule, option (2) could possibly help
> > quite many...
> >
> 
> Thanks, I've talked Hongxu, he will fix it on dora without backport
> the 7 commits, and we need revert this one on dora:
> 
> commit e58a1499accd74d3e6fe4f899711d4c680ebc18f
> Author: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
> Date:   Wed Nov 20 18:35:39 2013 +0800
> 
>      license.bbclass: fix copying license directories failed
> 
> 
> Paul and RP, what's your opinion, please ?

Seems reasonable to me. We reverted that patch a while ago.

Cheers,

Richard