On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 12:17 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote: > The default value for HOMEPAGE of "unknown" has been in place since the > early OE-Classic days, but it doesn't really make sense - "unknown" is > not a valid URL and it just means we have to explicitly check for this > hardcoded string if we're displaying the value in some form of UI, such > as Toaster. There is some code in the unmaintained oelint.bbclass to > check for this value, presumably on the assumption that the recipe will > explicitly set it to "" if there really isn't a homepage, but looking at > recipes in OE-Core and meta-oe suggests that we haven't been using this > convention for some time (with one exception in the latter) and it's > rather uncommon these days to have no URL to associate with a recipe. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> > --- > meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf > index 57668e1..4fb6a1c 100644 > --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf > +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ This package contains documentation." > > LICENSE = "INVALID" > MAINTAINER = "OE-Core Developers <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>" > -HOMEPAGE = "unknown" > +HOMEPAGE = "" >
Perhaps we just shouldn't set it at all in bitbake.conf and let recipes elect to set it? Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core