On Wednesday 13 October 2021 at 13:32:03 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 7:06 AM Mike Crowe via lists.openembedded.org <mac=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > We're using:
> >
> > EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "lic-pkgs"
> >
> > to install the corresponding licence packages for all the packages
> > installed in our image. This works very well for binaries and dynamic
> > libraries. However, I've recently noticed that it doesn't install licence
> > files for any static or header-only libraries used during the build.
> >
> > The corresponding -lic packages are built for such packages, but nothing
> > causes them to be installed since they are not runtime dependencies of
> > anything that is installed.
> >
> > I thought that I could solve this problem by something like:
> >
> > def lic_deps(d):
> > deps = []
> > for f in d.getVar('DEPENDS').split():
> > if not f.endswith("-native") and not f.startswith("virtual/"):
> > deps.append(f + "-lic")
> > return ' '.join(deps)
>
>
> It will work but in some cases it will be do more than what’s needed
> Build time dependencies are not necessarily also runtime dependencies eg it
> could be using a tool from that package during build
Yes. I was attempting to avoid that to a certain extent by excluding
-native packages.
> > RDEPENDS_${PN}-lic += "${@lic_deps(d)}"
> >
> > but this fails for recipes that use PROVIDES or other shenanigans which
> > means that just appending -lic to whatever is in DEPENDS is insufficient.
> >
> > For the time being I can add the required packages by hand, but this is
> > brittle in the longer term.
> >
> > Is there a better way to solve this problem?
The deficiencies in this solution made me hope that there was a better one.
It doesn't sound like there is. :(
Thanks.
Mike.
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