Re: [OE-core][PATCH v8 0/9] Implement SPDX for deploy tasks

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

On Wed Nov 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM CET, Joshua Watt via openembedded-core 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.
>

Hi Joshua,

Sorry, it looks like one of the selftests is still failing:

2026-11-04 20:54:56,255 - oe-selftest - INFO - sstatetests.SStateHashSameSigs2.test_sstate_allarch_samesigs (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-11-04 20:54:56,256 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
2026-11-04 20:54:56,257 - oe-selftest - INFO - 14: 40/74 566/796 (126.20s) (0 failed) (sstatetests.SStateHashSameSigs2.test_sstate_allarch_samesigs)
2026-11-04 20:54:56,257 - 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/sstatetests.py", line 474, in test_sstate_allarch_samesigs
    self.sstate_common_samesigs(configA, configB, allarch=True)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/sstatetests.py", line 207, in sstate_common_samesigs
    self.assertEqual(files1, files2)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/unittest/case.py", line 907, in assertEqual
    assertion_func(first, second, msg=msg)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/unittest/case.py", line 1206, in assertDictEqual
    self.fail(self._formatMessage(msg, standardMsg))
    ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/unittest/case.py", line 732, in fail
    raise self.failureException(msg)
AssertionError: {'nat[270260 chars]do_package_qa': '857626b7bdd74c4b2507f085ec1d3[30298 chars]ccf'} != {'nat[270260 chars]do_patch': '58d5b3102c4ba7a2388712a2a7f962d88e[30298 chars]ccf'}
  {'adwaita-icon-theme/do_compile': '5390f85c42205bb5a14f7d92537a8420867861c0ef9adc409863aa1a1cd61709',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_configure': 'a280235b7d74824b3743f9490b3549add607d66c38976212ef67a5598819592e',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_create_package_spdx': 'e62d8265977d1a7e3ad698899be0f643a79e7a5a7b7b6f10292c8959a58fc267',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_create_recipe_spdx': 'efe776c196e9c591367785ce9a32d02228af827c2995ce26df1885b88065da9d',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_create_spdx': 'bde607fa1590084bb0b587b76f48bec54b0ecff13a4a437385558eeb7a5595dd',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_deploy_source_date_epoch': '8de41ddc1f7abb948c161ec6591dbe887186eafe18890b24a13568793ab8e897',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_fetch': '21febaeb8a75763a5eed0a68a22d15a4cb491f25c5d59a086c5d3a48c6ac7176',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_install': '7d74cc9d42787eb59d2185a92d974e5a61d7cb8e60a23319fdb947cb42389739',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_package': '435d8e3412602a492d7b016d3b8615f78fc4de88113bd8180ed8e2c420a55ca2',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_package_qa': '497742679e6ab012cb1050d1f6358737f312fe0520b3ab55a8329924af0b42a8',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_package_write_rpm': '7d5c34df18018681012fc3544d90fa227d311c18c0093459cf9082c9cddb9e6c',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_packagedata': 'eb4f146bb2fed70fb92c69bf02d1e4478429b02ea6a9354442cb1af3a34edd2b',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_patch': 'ee2331e00fd0a461aece4ec16f69cecb8463aac4b5a01e07858a515b85c39c53',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_populate_lic': 'e41b536e4515805e401b974e48c25168b7e95d523f38806bf101aa4b923d3dfc',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_populate_sysroot': 'b5ff360309b0769e840d56103b8036fa882da881d7bfcd0fc89d93a0e460b5d8',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_prepare_recipe_sysroot': 'd82174494f146d0936439e3c5bb1a3d85759fe369008ad968017194f4b03733e',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_recipe_qa': 'b63675adc7d32dfccfe8a0a8b3be5a5aa892fcfb7a09288714502274ca318d0f',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_unpack': '04087c36f3690f91199bbe4e6a61a01bbf32550f289cdccdbc382227566aa54e',
   'adwaita-icon-theme/do_write_config': '3a0d46da99ab5c777732a0143eaedf2319bc385163d544a538ab918bc10ef664',
   'alsa-topology-conf/do_compile': '310c99f93ad20956d61fff0b5a8a18d8b84a175c415110986f4a439023dba11b',
   ...

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/5193
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/5006
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/5221

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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