On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 14:05 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2021 at 13:25:17 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> That seems to have worked well.
> 
> I wonder whether this means that it would be better to stop adding the
> recommends automatically and tell users that need this to use
> IMAGE_INSTALL_COMPLEMENTARY instead (either directly, or by teaching
> license_image.bbclass to modify it based on another variable.)

That would seem the better option to me at least...

> Losing the recommends would also meaan I wouldn't need to add
> --no-recommends to the image recipes that don't need the licence files.
> 
> Thanks for the speedy response!

No problem, glad it works/helps!

Cheers,

Richard

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