[OE-core] [PATCH] conf/bitbake.conf: default HOMEPAGE to blank instead of unknown

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Saul,

On Tuesday 21 January 2014 14:09:16 Saul Wold wrote:
> On 01/21/2014 04:17 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > The default value for HOMEPAGE of "unknown" has been in place since the
> > early OE-Classic days, but it doesn't really make sense - "unknown" is
> > not a valid URL and it just means we have to explicitly check for this
> > hardcoded string if we're displaying the value in some form of UI, such
> > as Toaster. There is some code in the unmaintained oelint.bbclass to
> > check for this value, presumably on the assumption that the recipe will
> > explicitly set it to "" if there really isn't a homepage, but looking at
> > recipes in OE-Core and meta-oe suggests that we haven't been using this
> > convention for some time (with one exception in the latter) and it's
> > rather uncommon these days to have no URL to associate with a recipe.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >   meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > index 57668e1..4fb6a1c 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ This package contains documentation."
> > 
> >   LICENSE = "INVALID"
> >   MAINTAINER = "OE-Core Developers
> >   <openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org>"> 
> > -HOMEPAGE = "unknown"
> > +HOMEPAGE = ""
> 
> This seems to have caused a couple of problems with shadow-securetty,
> updaterc and depmodwrapper.
> 
> There may be more.

Can you perhaps be more specific as to what the problem is?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre