[yocto] Package relation between package.manifest and license.manifest

[Khem Raj]

> On Oct 26, 2016, at 5:45 AM, Hugo Heutinck <heutinck.h at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Question: What is the relation between the package.manifest and license.manifest ?
> 
> After a yocto poky based image has been built there are 2 files in the licenses directory "tmp/deploy/licenses/image_name-datestamp"
> 
> One is the package.manifest, which if understood correctly is a list of all packages included in the image.
> 
> The second file is the license.manifest, but this one contains besides the package name also the version, recipe name and license of the package.
> 
> However if I compare the package names in both lists, there seem to be a  number of packages in the license.manifest that are not part of the package.manifest. E.g. "readline, popt, expat, freetype".
> 
> Is the license.manifest a list of all items in the package.manifest + ?build dependencies? or something ?

They should be same.

try something like this
cat license.manifest | grep "PACKAGE NAME: " | sed "s/PACKAGE NAME: //“ > a.manifest
diff a.manifest package.manifest

For me both files comes out same.


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> Regards,
> 
> H.Heutinck
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