[OE-core] [PATCH] Allow overriding environment specific SPDX variables

[Leonardo Sandoval]

On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 15:30 +0000, niko.mauno at vaisala.com wrote:
> 
> On 03.05.2017 18:09, Leonardo Sandoval wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 10:39 +0000, niko.mauno at vaisala.com wrote:
> >> Change certain variable assignments from 'hard' (=) to 'soft' (?=) so that
> >> suitable permutations of values for these variables can be assigned eg. in
> >> custom meta layers. Otherwise eg. fossology server is limited to run on same
> >> machine as bitbake, and generated SPDX files are placed into home directory
> >> path of a custom luser account.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Niko Mauno <niko.mauno at vaisala.com>
> >> ---
> >>  meta/conf/licenses.conf | 12 +++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/conf/licenses.conf b/meta/conf/licenses.conf
> >> index d210a0e..fcaec1b 100644
> >> --- a/meta/conf/licenses.conf
> >> +++ b/meta/conf/licenses.conf
> >> @@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ SPDXLICENSEMAP[SGIv1] = "SGI-1"
> >>
> >>  ## SPDX temporary directory
> >>  SPDX_TEMP_DIR = "${WORKDIR}/spdx_temp"
> >> -SPDX_MANIFEST_DIR = "/home/yocto/fossology_scans"
> >> +
> >> +## Output directory for generated SPDX files
> >> +SPDX_MANIFEST_DIR ?= "/home/yocto/fossology_scans"
> >
> > not sure if this is right, but shouldn't be SPDX_MANIFEST_DIR ?=
> > "${SPDX_TEMP_DIR}/fossology_scans' so this way we do not rely on a
> > yocto's home folder?

a single series with two patches would make more sense in my opinion
because these are two logical changes in the same area.

> >
> > Leo
> >
> 
> That would seem like a more feasible default. Is this something that 
> should be addressed now in this patch, or in another (later) changeset?
> 
> >>
> >>  ## SPDX Format info
> >>  SPDX_VERSION = "SPDX-1.1"
> >> @@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ DATA_LICENSE = "CC0-1.0"
> >>  #   information.
> >>  #
> >>
> >> -FOSS_NO_COPYRIGHT = "true"
> >> +FOSS_NO_COPYRIGHT ?= "true"
> >>
> >>  # A option defined as[FOSS_RECURSIVE_UNPACK] in ./meta/conf/licenses.conf. is
> >>  # used to control if FOSSology server need recursively unpack tar.gz file which
> >> @@ -156,7 +158,7 @@ FOSS_NO_COPYRIGHT = "true"
> >>  #    FOSSology server recursively unpack components.
> >>  #
> >>
> >> -FOSS_RECURSIVE_UNPACK = "false"
> >> +FOSS_RECURSIVE_UNPACK ?= "false"
> >>
> >>  # An option defined as [FOSS_FULL_SPDX] in ./meta/conf/licenses.conf is used to
> >>  # control what kind of SPDX output to get from the FOSSology server.
> >> @@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ FOSS_RECURSIVE_UNPACK = "false"
> >>  #   license tags in the report will be "NOASSERTION"
> >>  #
> >>
> >> -FOSS_FULL_SPDX = "true"
> >> +FOSS_FULL_SPDX ?= "true"
> >>
> >>  # FOSSologySPDX instance server. http://localhost/repo is the default
> >>  # installation location for FOSSology.
> >> @@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ FOSS_FULL_SPDX = "true"
> >>  #   https://github.com/spdx-tools/fossology-spdx/wiki/Fossology-SPDX-Web-API
> >>  #
> >>
> >> -FOSS_BASE_URL = "http://localhost/repo/?mod=spdx_license_once"
> >> +FOSS_BASE_URL ?= "http://localhost/repo/?mod=spdx_license_once"
> >>  FOSS_SERVER = "${FOSS_BASE_URL}&fullSPDXFlag=${FOSS_FULL_SPDX}&noCopyright=${FOSS_NO_COPYRIGHT}&recursiveUnpack=${FOSS_RECURSIVE_UNPACK}"
> >>
> >>  FOSS_WGET_FLAGS = "-qO - --no-check-certificate --timeout=0"
> >> --
> >> 2.1.4
> >
> >