From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A3F60144 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2014 14:05:12 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,697,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="442529498" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.12.29]) ([10.255.12.29]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2014 14:09:16 -0800 Message-ID: <52DEF00C.20608@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:09:16 -0800 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <1390306673-9822-1-git-send-email-paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1390306673-9822-1-git-send-email-paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] conf/bitbake.conf: default HOMEPAGE to blank instead of unknown X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:09:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/21/2014 04:17 AM, 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 > --- > 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 " > -HOMEPAGE = "unknown" > +HOMEPAGE = "" > This seems to have caused a couple of problems with shadow-securetty, updaterc and depmodwrapper. There may be more. I will look to see what I can do to fix those recipes. Sau! > # Package dependencies and provides. > >