[oe] [oe-meta][PATCHv2] 1/3] libnet: Clean and upgrade (see below)

Michael Lippautz michael.lippautz at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 09:46:35 UTC 2011


2011/4/20 Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>:
> Dear Michael,
>
>
> thank you for your patches.
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 20.04.2011, 10:57 +0200 schrieb Michael Lippautz:
>> * libbnet upstream on packetfactor is dead
>>   using https://github.com/sam-github/libnet instead
>> * Move to version 1.1.5
>> * Dropped patches (not needed): support-uclibc, new-autotools
>> * Added LIC_FILES_CHKSUM
>> * Removed useless do_install_append, works automatically
>> * Not building statically anymore
>> * Should be compatible with old v1.1 versions
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Lippautz <michael.lippautz at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  .../libnet/libnet-1.1.5/fix-endianess-test.patch   |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  .../recipes-connectivity/libnet/libnet_1.1.5.bb    |   24 ++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libnet/libnet-1.1.5/fix-endianess-test.patch
>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libnet/libnet_1.1.5.bb
>
> […]
>
>> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libnet/libnet_1.1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libnet/libnet_1.1.5.bb
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..ec426a5
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libnet/libnet_1.1.5.bb
>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>> +DESCRIPTION = "A packet dissection and creation library"
>> +# libnet at packetfactory.net is dead
>> +HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/sam-github/libnet"
>> +SECTION = "libs"
>> +LICENSE = "BSD"
>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;md5=533bea47338d490e86744c6a0c5692e7"
>
> What does the README have to do with the license? I thought if there is
> not file `COPYING` – maybe one should be sent upstream – one takes the
> header of the source files as for example `libnet_asn1.c` [1].

Thats true, but there are different headers (see your [1] against
[3]), and the README describes the overall situation. But there's no
licensing informating in it, thats true. Any ideas regarding the
different headers?

>
>> +DEPENDS = "libpcap"
>> +# There are major API changes beween libnet v1.0 and libnet v1.1
>> +PROVIDES = "libnet-1.1"
>> +PR = "r0"
>> +
>> +SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/libnet-dev/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
>> +           file://fix-endianess-test.patch"
>> +
>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a9bc1d75a610efcfee200d3e28d8eb8f"
>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "75588f8d1232e1df34eccf2dba5e66be197b345a07fae80d8275db994496a20d"
>> +
>> +S = "${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}"
>
> This is the default [2] and should be dropped.

Sorry for that, I can fix that when adding the licensing information.

>
>> +
>> +inherit autotools binconfig
>> +
>> +do_configure_prepend() {
>> +        rm -f aclocal.m4 Makefile.am ltmain.sh
>> +}
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/sam-github/libnet/blob/master/libnet/src/libnet_asn1.c
> [2] http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#id327409
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[3] https://github.com/sam-github/libnet/blob/master/libnet/src/libnet_build_802.2.c

regargs,
Michael




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