Hi Mark
On 24.11.23 at 17:20, Mark Hatle wrote:
In the past, the statement was made that we would generate source
packages that
would include the full source (as referenced in the ${S} directory of
the
build), but there was no promise that a 'source package' would build,
using the
tooling of the package manager.
This allowed us to clearly have a license compliance "source
package", but the
reference back to the full build was ALWAYS "the build system". I'd
say this
continues to be the model I would support. (The package beyond license
compliance is also needed for debugging things on the board.)
binary package(s)
source package
original build environment
The one thing that needs to be checked though, is the -src package
complete?
For debugging purposes, I believe it is.. but I'm not sure what
changed have
happened in it in the last 5 years or so when I was last involved in
the code
base. The original (many many years ago) intention was that it would
be a
complete copy of the ${S}, and like the source compliance work elsewhere
(archiver.bbclass) could get other bits and pieces embedded into it.
It may also be a completely reasonable behavior that -src stays as
run-time
debug, and we point users at the archiver sources for license
compliance. They
don't have to be done in packages (since we know a source package
won't work
anyway!)
I just re-read what I wrote and realized I'm not awake.. there are TWO
different outputs.
-src package which is DEBUG centric
.src.rpm which was supposed to be equivalent of the archiver, but in
RPM format. (I assume a tarball for deb users.. I don't know about
opkg.)
Right, for people following this discussion, the "-src" packages are
described in
https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/ref-manual/variables.html#term-PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT_STYLE.
According to the documentation, it seems that we can only build standard
source packages in RPM format, using the "archiver class", so these
indeed are not like other packages produced by package splitting:
INHERIT += "archiver"
PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm"
ARCHIVER_MODE[srpm] = "1"
You then get the .src.rpm packages under tmp/deploy/sources/
I'm just sharing what I found on this topic here. I don't mean we should
use such packages. The standard output of the "archiver" class looks fine.
Cheers
Michael.
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Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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