On 15 Mar 2024, at 19:52, Dhairya Nagodra -X (dnagodra - E-INFO CHIPS INC at 
Cisco) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What’s the use-case for this?  Note that you can control whether cve-check
>> runs per-layer already, if that’s useful.
> 
> Currently, the CVE report is generated for all packages associated with the 
> build. 
> However, not all of them might be getting used in the target device.
> The package associated with native, nativesdk, cross classes are examples of 
> such.
> This patch would provide a way to exclude these packages in the CVE report.
> So, if the variable is set like CVE_CHECK_CLASS_EXCLUDELIST = "native", 
> The report would not have the entries for these packages:
> gnupg-native, nasm-native, binutils-native (and so on)

For this specific use-case I’d suggest filtering the JSON to remove all -native 
entries.  Also as Mikko said, a CVE in gcc-cross would absolutely need to be 
considered, so I’d not recommend ignoring all native recipes.

Ross
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