| Summary: |
yocto-check-layer can fail if a layer adds new licenses |
| Product: |
[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core
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Reporter: |
Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker> |
| Component: |
Scripts and Tools | Assignee: |
Unassigned <unassigned> |
| Status: |
RESOLVED
OBSOLETE
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QA Contact: |
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| Severity: |
normal
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| Priority: |
Medium+
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CC: |
paul, peter.kjellerstedt, randy.macleod, ross.burton
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| Version: |
unspecified | |
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| Target Milestone: |
5.99 | |
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| Hardware: |
x86 | |
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| OS: |
Multiple | |
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OS type for building Yocto:
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Type of Regression:
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Verified:
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Documentation change:
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No (bug/feature does not impact docs)
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If a layer adds new licenses by appending to LICENSE_PATH, it will cause any recipe that inherits "license.bbclass" to fail because that class expands the AVAILABLE_LICENSE variable by scanning all paths listed in LICENSE_PATH. This results in a signature mismatch for the recipe. As an example when running yocto-check-layers on one of our internal layers which adds a custom license file, we got the following error: 71 signatures changed, initial differences (first hash before, second after): libdevmapper:do_configure: 82c851ad59f13117fc0f9cf68732d3e4b187f150baa08af99c4d6ebad5d56b8a -> cd43c102864ed6ee6a8727d002e59a68b8898cdabff801dfffcbf1f237c9fddf bitbake-diffsigs --task libdevmapper do_configure --signature 82c851ad59f13117fc0f9cf68732d3e4b187f150baa08af99c4d6ebad5d56b8a cd43c102864ed6ee6a8727d002e59a68b8898cdabff801dfffcbf1f237c9fddf NOTE: Starting bitbake server... basehash changed from c09082cab215faf830a4bd4cc68275b97fd408eda66668723874095268701964 to 2542be418520358049adb0a46e46166f7d614fd2756175b0544b1fa4b964717b Variable AVAILABLE_LICENSES value changed: "... {+Module-License-Fraunhofer+} ..." There appear to be two recipes that currently inherit license.bbclass: libdevmapper and lvm2 (both of which get it from lvm2.inc)