[yocto] do all recipes really need LIC_FILES_CHKSUM?

[Mark Hatle]

On 11/7/11 10:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 
>> On 11/7/11 10:01 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>
>>>   current poky ref manual seems pretty adamant about need for
>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM:
>>>
>>> "Note that this variable is mandatory for all recipes, unless the
>>> LICENSE variable is set to "CLOSED".
>>>
>>> but there's at least one counter-example,
>>> meta-demoapps/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb:
>>
>> Bug in the example.. it should be fixed.

I'm not surprised that meta-demoapps is missing this stuff..  AFAIK the stuff
here isn't run though the normal build/QA process.

If this information isn't deprecated as Gary thought it might be... then it
absolutely should be fixed.

>   oooookay, but it's really not hard to find more examples like that,
> such as meta-demoapps/recipes-graphics/libxklavier/libxklavier_3.9.bb:
> 
> DESCRIPTION = "Utility library to make using XKB easier"
> SECTION = "x11/libs"
> DEPENDS = "iso-codes libxml2 glib-2.0 libxkbfile"
> LICENSE = "LGPL"
> PR = "r2"
> 
> SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/gswitchit/libxklavier-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
>            file://pkgconfigfix.patch;patch=1"
> 
> inherit autotools
> 
>   or "xournal" in the same directory, etc, etc.  i'm not trying to be
> annoyingly pedantic (he lied), just pointing out the inconsistencies.
> 
> rday
>