[yocto] [denzil] Licenses, source distribution etc

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2012/5/8 Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>:
> On 05/08/2012 03:29 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>> 2012/5/8 Frans Meulenbroeks<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> 2012/5/8 Frans Meulenbroeks<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> A next question/issue wrt my denzil experiment:
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to know what licenses are used in my image.
>>>> I found tmp/deploy/licenses but this is package oriented and does not
>>>> really give a quick overview.
>>>>
>>>> The manual gave me this section:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-classes-src-distribute
>>>>
>>>> I tried to inherit src_distribute and src_distribute_local, but to no
>>>> avail
>>>> Running a find on the source tree did not reveal these classes:
>>>>
>>>> frans at frans-desktop:~/poky-denzil-7.0$ find | grep distribute
>>>> ./meta/classes/pkg_distribute.bbclass
>>>> frans at frans-desktop:~/poky-denzil-7.0$
>>>>
>>>> Something missing?
>>>> And what is the best way to find out what licenses are used?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, (and keep up the good work!)
>>>> Frans.
>>>
>>>
>>> Googled a little bit further.
>>> Guess this is a documentation issue as the classes have been
>>> deliberatly removed.
>>> See http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/23171/
>>>
>>> Frans
>>
>>
>> One more thing:
>> I've added the archiver class. I also have rm_work (not sure if that is
>> related)
>> Now when running a build I get errors like this:
>>
>> NOTE: Running task 1029 of 1279 (ID: 1167,
>> /home/frans/poky-denzil-7.0/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb,
>> do_package_write_rpm)
>> NOTE: package gettext-0.18.1.1-r11: task do_package_write_rpm: Started
>> ERROR: Error executing a python function in
>> /home/frans/poky-denzil-7.0/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb:
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'upper'
>>
>> ERROR: The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this
>> exception/failure was:
>> ERROR:   File "do_remove_tarball", line 14, in<module>
>> ERROR:
>> ERROR:   File "do_remove_tarball", line 3, in do_remove_tarball
>> ERROR:
>> ERROR: The code that was being executed was:
>> ERROR:      0010:               except (TypeError,OSError):
>> ERROR:      0011:                               pass
>> ERROR:      0012:
>> ERROR:      0013:
>> ERROR:  *** 0014:do_remove_tarball(d)
>> ERROR:      0015:
>> ERROR: (file: 'do_remove_tarball', lineno: 14, function:<module>)
>> ERROR:      0001:
>> ERROR:      0002:def do_remove_tarball(d):
>> ERROR:  *** 0003:       if d.getVar('SOURCE_ARCHIVE_PACKAGE_TYPE',
>> True).upper() == 'SRPM':
>> ERROR:      0004:               work_dir = d.getVar('WORKDIR', True)
>> ERROR:      0005:               try:
>> ERROR:      0006:                       for file in
>> os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
>> ERROR:      0007:                               if file in get_package(d):
>> ERROR: (file: 'do_remove_tarball', lineno: 3, function: do_remove_tarball)
>> ERROR: Function failed: do_remove_tarball
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>>
>> /home/frans/poky-denzil-7.0-build/tmp/work/ppce300c3-poky-linux-uclibc/gettext-0.18.1.1-r11/temp/log.do_package_write_rpm.11248
>> NOTE: package gettext-0.18.1.1-r11: task do_package_write_rpm: Failed
>> ERROR: Task 1167
>>
>> (/home/frans/poky-denzil-7.0/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.18.1.1.bb,
>> do_package_write_rpm) failed with exit code '1'
>>
>> And still no deploy/sources dir
>>
> Frans Please file a bug against this and the src-distrubute class
> documentation.
>
> Yes, we did rework the source archiving and I guess it was not tested as
> fully as it could have been.
>
> Did you set SOURCE_ARCHIVE_PACKAGE_TYPE?
>
> Sau!
>

Elizabeth, thhanks for the reference

Saul, I did not set  SOURCE_ARCHIVE_PACKAGE_TYPE. I assume that is the problem.
Maybe this should get a sensible default or a warning if not set or it
could skip the source tarball

Best regards, Frans