Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] license_image.bbclass: report all packages with incompatible license

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Wed Mar 4, 2026 at 12:42 AM CET, Martin Jansa via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
>
> When multiple packages cannot be installed it shows only first one it
> finds, because of bb.fatal use. It might require many iterations to find
> all packages to avoid.
>
> e.g. with ptest enabled and GPL-3.0-or-later, GPL-3.0-only set as
> incompatible licenses you might get list like this for relatively small
> image:
>
> Some packages cannot be installed into the image because they have incompatible licenses: bzip2-ptest (GPL-3.0-or-later), coreutils (GPL-3.0-or-later), coreutils-stdbuf (GPL-3.0-or-later), diffutils (GPL-3.0-or-later), findutils (GPL-3.0-or-later), gawk (GPL-3.0-or-later), gnutls-openssl (GPL-3.0-or-later), gnutls-ptest (GPL-3.0-or-later), grep (GPL-3.0-only), make (GPL-3.0-only), mpfr (LGPL-3.0-or-later), python3-dbusmock (GPL-3.0-only), readline (GPL-3.0-or-later), sed (GPL-3.0-or-later)
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
> ---

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your patch.

I believe this is making some selftests fail:

2026-03-05 09:01:35,428 - oe-selftest - INFO - incompatible_lic.IncompatibleLicensePerImageTests.test_bash_and_license (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-03-05 09:01:35,429 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: QA Issue: The license listed SomeLicense was not in the licenses collected for recipe bash [license-file-missing]
ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Some packages cannot be installed into the image because they have incompatible licenses: bash (GPL-3.0-or-later)
...
2026-03-05 09:02:33,821 - oe-selftest - INFO - incompatible_lic.IncompatibleLicensePerImageTests.test_bash_default (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-03-05 09:02:33,821 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3225
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/3336

Can you have a look at these?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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