I tried to apply these patches, but the context does not match. Are there other patches I need to apply before these can be applied?
//Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <openembedded- > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Meh Mbeh Ida Delphine > Sent: den 17 februari 2021 05:00 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OE-core] [poky-contrib][RFC PATCH 0/5] Suggestions for > improvements? > > Hello everyone, > > The following patchset is aimed at improving the Yocto Project license > tracing. > > Initially, after a build I will come across 130 license warnings with some > false positives. I got rid of these by replacing "or-later" with "+" for > source licenses (computedpkglics) and also passing the recipe license > through canonical_license of license.py(). As a result, some of the > licenses will match during comparism hence some warnings eliminate. > > Though some false positive warnings were eliminated, lots of warnings were > ouputed as a result of several source licenses having "WITH Linux-syscall- > note". With the help of a variable being set in local.conf, one can > chooses whether or not to get lid of the "WITH Linux-syscall-note" string > from the source licenses. Just by doing this, several warnings are dropped > and now left with 118. > > I later on added some logic depending on "source_spdx_license" variable > whether or not for the user to allow the warnings being outputed during > the build. It reduces the extra processing and reduces time if the user > chooses not to display warnings. It uses bb.utils.contains() to find out > if that particular vaiable is present. Also, I added > package_qa_handle_error() to allow the user decide whether they want the > issues treated as warnings, errors or not at all. > > Some of the license-related logic I added to take care of splitting recipe > licences before canonicalizing, getting rid of "or-later" warnings, I > moved it to license.bbclass and put it in functions. I also plan on fixing > the variable naming since some have underscores whereas others do not > have. However, I will love to move more license logic in package.bbclass > to license.bbclass but I need help with the right way to go about it. > Also, general suggestions on any improvements to this are highly welcomed. > > Cheers, > Ida. > > Ida Delphine (5): > package: Remove false positive lic warnings > package: Remove false positive lic warnings > package: Remove false positive lic warnings > license.bbclass: Add functions to split and canonicalise license > strings > package.bbclass: Remove false positive license warnings > > meta/classes/license.bbclass | 27 ++++++++ > meta/classes/package.bbclass | 127 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- > 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.25.1
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