On Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 8:53 AM Mark Hatle <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 11/24/23 9:44 AM, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > While we have the information about each recipe and package that is
> built in the
> > SPDX document, the process of creating the document has to happen after
> > do_package so that we know what files are actual in each package. As
> such, it's
> > not currently possible to make a SPDX "package" for each package
> (because
> > do_package is over). We would also have to figure out if the SPDX
> packages would
> > depend on each other to provide missing IDs (which is quite tricky) or
> if each
> > package is the complete SBoM for what it is describing (which results it
> larger
> > packages and many SPDX packages having the same duplicates IDs). As with
> many
> > things SPDX, version 3 will probably make this a little simpler.
>
> We can generate package specific SPDX as part of the do_package
> operation.  What
> we can't do is assemble this into a filesystem knowledge.
>

Are you taking about just the SPDX licensing information, or full SPDX? I
was talking about the latter, and it's not as trivial to do that in
do_package for a number of reasons



> The right way to handle a binary distribution is include the license
> information
> in the package so that it gets installed when the package gets installed.
> (Either directly or via an rrecommend of another license package.)
>
> It's then up to the user to assemble the files on the running filesystem
> to
> create an overall device manifest.  (Since this takes up space, it needs
> to
> continue to be something that is optional, as a large core of our users
> won't
> want this behavior -- but it is the right behavior for a dynamically
> updateable
> package based binary distribution.   Once it's been updated there is no
> longer a
> 'golden' set, since the users can modify the arbitrary installed
> combinations of
> software.
>
> --Mark
>
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 3:06 AM Michael Opdenacker <
> [email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Joshua, all,
> >
> >     (happy Thanksgiving week-end, no emergency)
> >
> >     On 22.11.23 at 21:04, Michael Opdenacker via lists.openembedded.org
> >     <http://lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> >      > Available reference binary artifacts
> >      > ------------------------------------
> >      >
> >      > The first prototype will make the below binary artifacts publicly
> >      > available:
> >      >
> >      > - Root filesystem images (as specified above)
> >      >
> >      > - Binary package feeds (as specified above)
> >      >
> >      > - PR (
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/variables.html#term-PR
> >     <https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/variables.html#term-PR>)
> >      >   database, so that people can manage updates to packages, by
> >      > importing the
> >      >   database in a local PR server.
> >      >
> >      > - Prebuilt object data ("Shared State cache) through a public
> server
> >      >   (see
> >      >
> >
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/variables.html#term-SSTATE_MIRRORS
> >     <
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/variables.html#term-SSTATE_MIRRORS
> >),
> >      >   to reuse binary output already built by the Yocto Project
> >      > autobuilders, to
> >      >   reduce the compile time of additional packages.
> >      >
> >      > - Hash Equivalence data through a public server
> >      >   (see
> >      >
> >
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/2.4/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.html#term-BB_HASHSERVE_UPSTREAM
> <
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/2.4/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.html#term-BB_HASHSERVE_UPSTREAM
> >),
> >      >   to increase the reusability of prebuilt objects.
> >
> >
> >     I realize I completely overlooked the need to supply SPDX
> information.
> >     While we can ship an SPDX description of the initial images, how can
> we
> >     produce an update of this description after we install extra
> packages or
> >     update existing ones through the binary package feeds?
> >
> >     Should the build system also generate "-spdx" packages for each
> component?
> >     Cheers
> >     Michael.
> >
> >     --
> >     Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
> >     Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> >     https://bootlin.com <https://bootlin.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> 
>
>
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