Re: [PATCH 4/6] archiver.bbclass: move a few code to copyleft_compliance.bbclass

[Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>]

On 03/19/2014 08:09 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2014 01:08:22 Robert Yang wrote:
>> Move the code which is only used by copyleft_compliance.bbclass from
>> archiver.bbclassc, and remove the "inherit archiver" from
>> copyleft_compliance.bbclass.
>>
>> The archiver.bbclass is used for archiving various types of sources, but
>> the copyleft_compliance.bbclass is used for analysing the license, they
>> don't have much relationships.
>>
>> [YOCTO #4986]
>> [YOCTO #5113]
>
> I can see the benefit of tidying this up, however I think it's still desirable
> for archiver.bbclass to have the ability to filter the recipes that it archives
> by LICENSE value, so that you can easily exclude archiving proprietary sources
> if you wish. At the moment it doesn't seem like there's an easy way even to
> disable archiving on an individual recipe basis.
>

Thanks, sounds reasonable, we can treat this as an enhancement, I notice
that it is already on master-next, how about we let them get merged atm?
And I will send another patch to fix it.

// Robert

> Cheers,
> Paul
>