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From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton@...]
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 2:50 PM
To: Bryan Evenson <bevenson@...>
Cc: yocto@...; Trevor Woerner <twoerner@...>;
Michael Habibi <mikehabibi@...>
Subject: Re: [yocto] Best practice for files copied directly into sysroot?

On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 12:48:29 Trevor Woerner wrote:

On 12/04/15 09:03, Bryan Evenson wrote:

Although I am having issues with the license; I haven't figured out where
to put it and what to set LIC_FILES_CHKSUM to in the recipe so that
bitbake can find the license. If anyone has a good answer for that, let
me know.

You could try:
LICENSE = "CLOSED"

then you don't need a checksum line.

This is legitimate of course only when the source is in fact closed (and even
then, there may be redistribution conditions that you might want to track).

There are several more appropriate ways to solve this issue:

1) The proper way is to point to a file in the fetched/unpacked sources. To do
this, LIC_FILES_CHKSUM should specify one or more paths relative to ${S}
(i.e.
where the sources are unpacked to) each prefixed by file:// .

Ah, now I see the example in the manual: "Specifying the LIC_FILES_CHKSUM Variable". In my case I have the license as a separate file in my files/ directory for the recipe. So in my case I now set:

LIC_FILES_CHECKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/license.txt;md5=blahblah"
SRC_URI = "file://${BP}.tar.gz \
file://license.txt \
"

Now the do_license step is finding the license in the WORKDIR and I no longer have any warnings about the license.

Thanks!
Bryan

2) If there is no file in the sources describing the license, then add one in
SRC_URI, or point to a common one in ${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR} if
appropriate.
These are then copied into ${WORKDIR} automatically and can be referred to
in
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM from there.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre