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Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <[email protected]> --- meta/classes/insane.bbclass | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass index 479d39c..6d20eb6 100644 --- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ python populate_lic_qa_checksum() { sane = package_qa_handle_error("license-checksum", pn + ": Recipe file fetches files and does not have license file information (LIC_FILES_CHKSUM)", d) srcdir = d.getVar('S') - + corebase_licensefile = d.getVar('COREBASE') + "/LICENSE" for url in lic_files.split(): try: (type, host, path, user, pswd, parm) = bb.fetch.decodeurl(url) @@ -670,6 +670,10 @@ python populate_lic_qa_checksum() { if not os.path.isfile(srclicfile): package_qa_handle_error("license-checksum", pn + ": LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: " + srclicfile, d) continue + + if (srclicfile == corebase_licensefile): + bb.warn("${COREBASE}/LICENSE is not a valid license file, please use '${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT' for a MIT License file in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM") + bb.warn("This will become an error in the next release") recipemd5 = parm.get('md5', '') beginline, endline = 0, 0 -- 2.7.5 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
