Re: [OE-core][PATCH v2 0/5] Implement SPDX for deploy tasks

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

On Thu Jun 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM 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 that starts
> with "do_deploy" 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.
>
> V2: Fixed SPDX documents missing at SBoM creation time when the
> documents were not a direct dependency of the SBoM, and were present in
> a sstate object. Previously, these sstate objects were not restored
> because they were "covered" by the later sstate tasks, but now they are
> restored if they are depended on by a task that creates SPDX output.
>

Hi Joshua,

Thanks for the new version, but I'm still seeing some errors on the
autobuilder:

ERROR: systemd-boot-259.5-r0 do_deploy_setscene: Recipe systemd-boot 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/by-task/systemd-boot:do_deploy.spdx.json
    (matched in manifest-qemux86-systemd-boot.deploy)
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/wic/build/build/tmp/deploy/spdx/3.0.1/core2-32/deploy/systemd-boot-do_deploy-deploy.spdx.json
    (matched in manifest-qemux86-systemd-boot.deploy)
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/wic/build/build/tmp/deploy/spdx/3.0.1/core2-32/by-spdxid-hash/c0/c00d8889d28fc9521178ce481c8e76cfc116eb5f57bb1c1bb7d9d98271b16e07.spdx.json
    (matched in manifest-qemux86-systemd-boot.deploy)
Please adjust the recipes so only one recipe provides a given file.

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/15/builds/3927

2026-06-20 11:34:04,962 - oe-selftest - INFO - spdx.SPDX30Check.test_baremetal_helloworld (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-06-20 11:34:04,963 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
2026-06-20 11:34:04,963 - oe-selftest - INFO - testtools.testresult.real._StringException: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/spdx.py", line 155, in test_baremetal_helloworld
    self.check_objset_missing_ids(objset)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/spdx.py", line 73, in check_objset_missing_ids
    self.assertTrue(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/unittest/case.py", line 715, in assertTrue
    raise self.failureException(msg)
AssertionError: False is not true : The following SPDXIDs are unresolved:
  http://spdxdocs.org/openembedded-alias/by-doc-hash/de503ed2af15b13f05a8f9025f181bbb421f080060947c2e31b480bd76d017b7/linux-libc-headers/UNIHASH/recipe/linux-libc-headers

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/4105
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3936

Can you have a loot at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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