[OE-core] [PATCH] license.py: remove duplicate '&' or '|' from LICENSE

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Thu Jan 12 07:19:11 UTC 2012


On 01/11/2012 06:11 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 03:56 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 January 2012 14:45:02 Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>>> Some upstream layers (ex: meta-oe) use '&&' or '||' syntax in LICENSE
>>> variable. Because of my last commit, these bbfiles are failing as
>>> LICENSE
>>> is tested with oe.license where '&&' and '||' are the bug source.
>>> The fix is to replace multiple characters of '&' or '|' with a single
>>> one.
>> Sorry to be a pain but could we not just fix those layers to use the
>> accepted
>> syntax? Doing so should be just a one-line find/sed command.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
> That'd be a solution as well but because those files were accepted this
> way until now i thought that this is an accepted syntax. More, this
> would scale and give a little freedom to the developers especially for
> those that are coming from "C" part or the world. (smile)
>
I think I agree with Paul here, Beth has sent out a proposal for that 
and by making a change here may allow the bad behavior to continue.

Sau!

> ag
>
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