On 2 May 2018 at 01:41, Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Paul Eggleton > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 11:54:00 AM NZST Andre McCurdy wrote: >>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Paul Eggleton >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:07:42 AM NZST Burton, Ross wrote: >>> >> The make dependencies come from the ptest packages, so if you disable >>> >> ptest in your DISTRO_FEATURES then those should disappear. >>> >> >>> >> Essentially doing a full build without any GPLv3 software *and* not >>> >> using old releases which are still GPLv2 is tricky. I can only >>> >> suggest you don't use the meta-gpl2 layer (as you don't want the >>> >> recipes to be used) and use bbappends to disable pieces where >>> >> required. >>> > >>> > We probably need some sort of whitepaper on how to do that, it doesn't >>> > look like our manuals cover it in sufficient detail. Any volunteers ? ;) >>> >>> Does "Blacklist GPLv3, don't use meta-gplv2, fix any issues you may >>> run into" need a whitepaper? Or is there more to it than that? >> >> Apart from "disable ptest" as Ross pointed out, I would assume that's all >> there is to it - but right now aside from asking here there's really no way >> for someone to know that that's the best available way of handling it, so I >> think it's worth documenting somewhere. > > Yes, OK. I hadn't realised ptest is enabled by default in poky (!?!). > > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto/commit/?id=9381b2d2bddf9f67cf57b0718cf99e45805125fa
Poky is primarily a vehicle for testing the Yocto Project software, so it follows that it enables ptest for QA purposes. Ross -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
