[OE-core] [dora]Re: Failure in license.bbclass

[Robert Yang]

On 03/13/2014 05:00 PM, Jussi Laako wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03/11/2014 12:40 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>> It is used for fixing this bug:
>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5572
>>
>> Enalbe COPY_LIC_MANIFEST and COPY_LIC_DIRS: No kernel license is
>> installed in image
>>
>> But it used the "oe-pkgdata-util lookup-recipe" which is only on master
>> branch,
>> I think that we'd better:
>>
>> 1) Revert this commit, then it works with minor problems.
>>
>> Or
>>
>> 2) Fix the "oe-pkgdata-util lookup-recipe" on dora.
>
> With core-image-minimal spiced up with couple of packages, there were quite many
> license directories left empty, so it requires fair amount of manual work to
> rectify the situation. So it is far more than just the kernel.
>
> For example any libraries coming from util-linux, plus any of the gcc runtimes
> (libgcc, etc). There are many packages where source name doesn't match with the
> produced packages.
>
> Since BSPs tend to lag behind release schedule, option (2) could possibly help
> quite many...
>

Thanks, I've talked Hongxu, he will fix it on dora without backport
the 7 commits, and we need revert this one on dora:

commit e58a1499accd74d3e6fe4f899711d4c680ebc18f
Author: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 20 18:35:39 2013 +0800

     license.bbclass: fix copying license directories failed


Paul and RP, what's your opinion, please ?

// Robert


>
> Best regards,
>
>      - Jussi
>
>