On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 12:53 +0100, Mike Crowe via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> We're using LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE to create ${PN}-lic package files and
> relying on the automatically generated recommends to cause them to be
> installed in the image. This works well for most packages, but fails for
> packages where we only install package created using PACKAGES_DYNAMIC.
>
> For example, liborc is being installed in our image but that package lacks
> a recommends for orc-lic, so the licences that apply to it are not being
> installed. This is because license.bbclass:add_package_and_files iterates
> only over the packages listed in PACKAGES.
>
> Steps to reproduce on current master:
>
> $ echo 'LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE = "1"' >> conf/local.conf
> $ bitbake orc
> $ dpkg-deb -I
> tmp-glibc/deploy/ipk/armv7vet2hf-neon/orc_0.4.32-r0_armv7vet2hf-neon.ipk|grep
> Recommends
> Recommends: orc-lic
> $ dpkg-deb -I
> tmp-glibc/deploy/ipk/armv7vet2hf-neon/liborc-0.4-0_0.4.32-r0_armv7vet2hf-neon.ipk|grep
> Recommends
> $
>
> (I would have expected the last command to produce the same output as the
> penultimate one.)
>
> Even if I could fathom out how to fix orc and any other recipes so that they
> did add the ${PN}-lic dependency, I'd be worried about not noticing that
> the problem affected other recipes in the future.
>
> Is there a way to teach license.bbclass:add_package_and_files to add the
> ${PN}-lic recommends for dynamic packages, or would it be necessary to
> teach package.bbclass to do so?
That all sounds rather horrible :/.
Would IMAGE_INSTALL_COMPLEMENTARY += "*-lic" work instead?
Cheers,
Richard
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