Re: [OE-core][PATCH 0/5] Implement SPDX for deploy tasks

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

On Wed Jun 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM CEST, Joshua Watt via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> The SPDX use case for file system image has been well defined since SPDX
> was first implemented, however there has always been a desire to also
> express SPDX output for other non-image deliverables (primarily, those
> that have a do_deploy task or similar). These types of tasks cannot
> easily use the traditional method of having a separate SPDX task that
> runs to create their SPDX output as this causes lots of problems with
> the way dependencies are specified. Instead, it is desirable for these
> tasks to directly produce SPDX output that can be consumed by other
> tasks that depend on them.
>
> This patch series adds support for this. Any sstate task can now be
> added to the SPDX_DEPLOY_TASKS list and it will run a postfunc to
> generate SPDX output that describes what is being deployed. For
> classical do_deploy tasks, this is setup to be easy by automatically
> capturing all the deployed output files in the SPDX data, but other
> tasks can be added as well.
>
> Finally, the do_create_image_spdx task is removed and replaced with a
> SPDX deploy postfunc using this new system. This means that any task
> that depends on do_image_complete will automatically also get the SPDX
> output for the image, simplifying the dependency handling.
>
> Joshua Watt (5):

Hi Joshua,

Thanks for your series. I believe we are seeing both a new error and new
warnings because of it.


ERROR: grub-efi-2.14-r0 do_deploy_setscene: Recipe grub-efi is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist. The files and the manifests listing them are:
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/wic/build/build/tmp/deploy/spdx/3.0.1/core2-32/deploy/grub-efi-do_deploy-deploy.spdx.json
    (matched in manifest-qemux86-grub-efi.deploy)
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/wic/build/build/tmp/deploy/spdx/3.0.1/core2-32/by-task/grub-efi:do_deploy.spdx.json
    (matched in manifest-qemux86-grub-efi.deploy)
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/wic/build/build/tmp/deploy/spdx/3.0.1/core2-32/by-spdxid-hash/3c/3c29614c1a202bc0cc0a6f3dfd5b29235ea75ce5ee5bb0a847367bd8ce978004.spdx.json
    (matched in manifest-qemux86-grub-efi.deploy)
Please adjust the recipes so only one recipe provides a given file.

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/15/builds/3852


WARNING: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_create_deploy_sbom: The following SPDX IDs were unable to be resolved:
  http://spdxdocs.org/openembedded-alias/by-doc-hash/500473e510f927d1a990e932c4942f978ce9da778692ab840dec17ad0ece09a1/pigz-native/UNIHASH/build/recipe

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/15/builds/3852
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/10/builds/3887
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/65/builds/3874

Can you have a look at the issues?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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