Re: [yocto] [Question] How to handle GPLv3 packages?

[Måns <mans.zigher@gmail.com>]

Hi Ross,

We don't have a ptest set in DISTRO_FEATURE so if that is the only way
to pull in ptest I would say that is the reason for us at least on why
there are so many bash dependencies.
One recipe that I am looking into right now is util-linux which does
have package util-linux-bash-completion but even the package
util-linux seems to depend on bash and bash-completion when
checking the dependencies by running bitbake -g util-linux and bitbake
-g <image>. It is not clear why the package util-linux depends on bash
and bash-completion. I have other recipes where it is also
not obvious to me why they have a dependency to bash and
bash-completion. One such recipe is a recipe that we have created and
the only content in the package produced is a script and the script
only has #!/bin/sh so not sure where this bash and bash-completion
comes from it is not something we have added so maybe we have some
underlying issue here that results in so many dependencies to
bash and bash-completion. We have not set up this system ourselves,
instead one of the HW suppliers starting with a Q ending with COMM
which I must say I am not that impressed with has supplied the
base that we are building on.

Thanks for your help anyway.


Den ons 6 apr. 2022 kl 11:11 skrev Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>:
>
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 at 09:59, Mans Zigher <mans.zigher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A more specific issue is that there are so many packages with bash
> > dependencies which are pulling in bash which is GPLv3 so how have you
> > solved that? Currently we have done some pretty uggly hacks which I am
> > not that happy with but we needed to keep it out of the image.
>
> As you're not naming recipes it is hard to offer concrete advice, but
> I will note that a large percentage of the bash dependencies in
> oe-core are specific to the ptest packages. If you don't need those
> then you can turn off the ptest DISTRO_FEATURE.
>
> Ross