[yocto] License missing coreutils when creating /usr/share/licenses and bbappend

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 10:27:17 PDT 2017


On 7/10/17 9:19 AM, Dr. Matthias Schöpfer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We are using yocto / openembedded (pyro). I use:
> 
> COPY_LIC_MANIFEST = "1"
> COPY_LIC_DIRS = "1"
> LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE = "1"
> 
> to generate a /usr/share/licenses and /usr/share/common-licenses
> respectively. But unfortunately, the coreutils subdirectory is empty.
> 
> I use a bbappend file containing only:
> 
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "40"
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[od] = "100"
> 
> such that only od gets installed (remaining functionality by busybox).
> 
> Any hints on how to get the license info in there as well?!

you might have to check if od is getting installed from coreutils or
some other package is providing it.

> 
> Regards,
> 
>     Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
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