[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:51:34AM +0800, Lei Maohui wrote:
>>>> In oe-core,the parted is GPLv3,so add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lei Maohui <leimaohui at cn.fujitsu.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  .../parted-1.8.6/1000parted-1.8.6-warnings1.patch  | 11 ++++
>>>>  .../1001parted-1.8.6-notransname1.patch            | 39 ++++++++++++++
>>>>  .../1002parted-1.8.6-off-by-one1.patch             | 25 +++++++++
>>>>  .../1003parted-1.8.6-primary-boundary1.patch       | 12 +++++
>>>>  .../parted-1.8.6/1004parted-1.8.6-xvd1.patch       | 50 +++++++++++++++++
>>>>  .../1005parted-1.8.6-devmapper-header1.patch       | 13 +++++
>>>>  .../parted/parted-1.8.6/7000no_effect_macro1.patch | 11 ++++
>>>>  .../parted/parted-1.8.6/ui.c-fix-build-error.patch | 26 +++++++++
>>>>  meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted_1.8.6.bb    | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  9 files changed, 249 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/1000parted-1.8.6-warnings1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/1001parted-1.8.6-notransname1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/1002parted-1.8.6-off-by-one1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/1003parted-1.8.6-primary-boundary1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/1004parted-1.8.6-xvd1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/1005parted-1.8.6-devmapper-header1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/7000no_effect_macro1.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted-1.8.6/ui.c-fix-build-error.patch
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-extended/parted/parted_1.8.6.bb
>>>
>>> I cannot take this to meta-oe, because as soon as it's added there it
>>> will be used by all DISTROs even those who don't mind having GPLv3
>>> version.
>>>
>>> Everybody would need to define PREFERRED_VERSION, because
>>> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE is useless across different layers :/
>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2964
>>>
>>> So this either has to be introduced in oe-core or in completely separate
>>> layer which would be included only by those who cannot use GPLv3.
>>
>> Third option would be to reduce the priority of meta-oe to be lower
>> than oe-core.
>>
>> That seems logical regardless of any GPLv3 discussion - since meta-oe
>> "fills in the gaps" in oe-core, if something _is_ present in oe-core
>> then it probably should be the default version.
>>
> This scares me: to get a recipe in with old version not supporting
> modern file systems you want to change meta-oe's layer priority
> risiking unknown issues. I wonder how far the GPLv3 avoidance hype
> takes us...

No, if you read the various threads, my preference is to have the
GPLv2 parted recipe in oe-core. That option has been shot down though
and the general consensus seems to be that the older version of parted
is too buggy to be included anywhere in OE. That topic seems to be
closed.

Trying to understand why meta-oe needs a higher priority than oe-core
is a separate topic. If the priorities were changed it would allow
older (and newer) versions of oe-core recipes to safely live in
meta-oe. That would help non-GPLv3 versions of GPLv3 packages, but it
might be useful in other cases too.


> Andreas
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