Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v11] util-linux: split uuid in separate recipe to allow bootstrapping

Richard Purdie
2021-03-25T14:27:15Z

On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 14:22 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Sent: den 25 mars 2021 10:34
> > To: Oleksiy Obitotskyi -X (oobitots - GLOBALLOGIC INC at Cisco)
> > <oobitots@cisco.com>; Luca Bocassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>;
> > openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> > Cc: bluelightning@bluelightning.org; Peter Kjellerstedt
> > <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>; Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v11] util-linux: split uuid in separate
> > recipe to allow bootstrapping
> >
> > On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 09:17 +0000, Oleksiy Obitotskyi -X (oobitots -
> > GLOBALLOGIC INC at Cisco) wrote:
> > > Could you look into this warning.
> > >
> > > WARNING: util-linux-2.36.2-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: util-linux-dev
> > rdepends on util-linux-libuuid-dev, but it isn't a build dependency?
> > [build-deps]
> > >
> > > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/61/builds/3226
> >
> > That failure was my fault when testing some fixes.
> >
> > I've sent out a patch which renames util-linux-uuid to util-linux-libuuid
> > and sorts out the license issue Peter reported.
>
> I don't mind the recipe being renamed and cleaned up, but I would prefer
> to see my entire patch for the license parts being either integrated before
> this or squashed into it, whichever you prefer. It does not make sense to
> use the same LIC_FILES_CHKSUM for util-linux-libuuid as for util-linux,
> and setting the other LICENSE variables in util-linux.inc no longer makes
> sense as they are only relevant for util-linux.

I'm torn on that. Code with the other licenses is present, just not used
in the final output and I personally suspect that having one LIC_FILES_CHKSUM
is going to be easier to maintain in the future rather than two separate ones.

Cheers,

Richard