On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM Fabio Berton via
lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I'm working on something similar and have shared what I have so far, 
> https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/rfc_patch_0_1_spdx_add/116223136.
>
> Could you please take a look?

You are correct in the observation that Files don't have a download
location, so externalRef would be the correct thing to use instead.
Otherwise, I think you're trying to do something pretty similar to
Daniel. I'll leave some comments in your patch

>
> Best regards,
> Fabio
>
> On 11/5/25 14:54, Daniel Wagenknecht via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've looked through the generated SPDX files for a project recently.
> > I' m specifically interested in the downloadLocation property that is
> > set for entries in SRC_URI in recipe scope SPDX files, as our list of
> > upstream sources we need to monitor for security information is based
> > off those values.
> >
> > We'd like to extend the generated SPDX to also cover files from meta-
> > layers, that are provided via file:// entries in SRC_URI. The files
> > provided via this mechanism are mostly configuration files, systemd
> > services, initscripts and the likes, so one could argue that they
> > are not relevant dependencies and thus do not need to be traced in
> > SPDX, but we'd prefer to properly trace them in the SPDX documents.
> >
> > Are there any thoughts on this, prior discussion that I've not found in
> > the mailinglist archive or external resources on how such files should
> > be treated in SPDX in general?
> >
> > I'm considering implementing this as outlined:
> > - for file:// entries in SRC_URI determine which layer provides the
> > file (via bb.fetch2.local.localpath())
> > - check if the layer is modified via oe.buildcfg.is_layer_modified()
> >   -> modified -> abort
> > - retrieve the layers URL. This is more involved since what
> > oe.buildcfg.get_metadata_git_remotes() returns might not be the URL
> > that should be specified in the downloadLocation
> > My approach would be to introduce a per-layer variable that specifies
> > it's public URL.
> >   -> no public URL for the layer found -> abort
> > - create a SPDXRef-Download-recipename-X entry for the file with the
> > downloadLocation set to the layers url with commit and subpath of the
> > file in the repository specified
> >
> > If the layer is modified or a public URL for that layer is not
> > specified the downloadLocation would yield a NOASSERTION value.
> >
> > I'd be glad to get some feedback on those ideas!
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Daniel Wagenknecht
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> 
>
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