[yocto] Generating license/manifest for a specific layer?

[Michael Habibi]

So to clarify your question, basically everything we would want in the
custom manifest would be in our own layer: both bbappends and new bb
recipes. Given that, you think I could still modify it like you suggest to
get what I want?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 8:59 AM Beth Flanagan <pidge at toganlabs.com> wrote:

> Ok, I guess my question there then would be is how you'd determine
> where a recipe "lived". Like, if meta-foo has a bbappends for
> something in core, would you include it or not in your manifest?
>
> If so, then taking the original manifest and just doing some text
> manipulation in a ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND would be the way I'd
> probably look at tackling it.
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Beth,
> >
> > This is for internal consumption. We want to be able to generate a full
> > manifest, and also one that reflects how we diverged from base Yocto
> > distribution.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:55 AM Beth Flanagan <pidge at toganlabs.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Our use case is to capture the license files, manifest
> >> > (package/version),
> >> > and download information only for packages we modify/add. We use our
> own
> >> > layer to modify/add packages, everything coming from standard Yocto
> >> > layers
> >> > are untouched.
> >> >
> >> > Is there a way to generate this information on a layer-by-layer basis,
> >> > instead of a full manifest that includes all standard, unmodified
> >> > packages?
> >>
> >> The easy (cheating) way, would be to modify the tmp/deploy/licenses
> >> artifact post build (I do it to remove -native- and -cross- from
> >> things I distribute as I'm not actually distributing them) or put in a
> >> post do_rootfs function that does it.
> >>
> >> I guess my question would be (and this is less a technical question
> >> and more of a legal one) is why would you want to only include a
> >> manifest for only part of what you're distributing (or am I
> >> misunderstanding what you're trying to do here?)
> >>
> >> -b
> >> >
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