insane.bbclass: Warn if ${COREBASE}/LICENSE is used

The top level LICENSE file is not actually a license, it refers
other licenses that are used by Bitbake and Meta-data. Relying
on this file could cause problems for recipes when this file
changes, which it is about to.

(From OE-Core rev: a1948ab38c9cb7f0b16cce9dadc03ae6e2fe44ad)

(From OE-Core rev: dd75644db2f662f0d88529a068bbfb599c9790a9)

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Saul Wold
2017-09-01 14:53:25 -07:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 2563e866b3
commit 6e224e9c8e

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@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ python populate_lic_qa_checksum() {
sane = package_qa_handle_error("license-checksum", pn + ": Recipe file fetches files and does not have license file information (LIC_FILES_CHKSUM)", d)
srcdir = d.getVar('S')
corebase_licensefile = d.getVar('COREBASE') + "/LICENSE"
for url in lic_files.split():
try:
(type, host, path, user, pswd, parm) = bb.fetch.decodeurl(url)
@@ -601,6 +601,9 @@ python populate_lic_qa_checksum() {
package_qa_handle_error("license-checksum", pn + ": LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: " + srclicfile, d)
continue
if (srclicfile == corebase_licensefile):
bb.warn("${COREBASE}/LICENSE is not a valid license file, please use '${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT' for a MIT License file in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. This will become an error in the future")
recipemd5 = parm.get('md5', '')
beginline, endline = 0, 0
if 'beginline' in parm: