[OE-core] [jethro][PATCH] license.bbclass: fix host contamination warnings for license files

[Robert Yang]

On 11/25/2015 06:55 PM, Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I understand. Though LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE is disabled by default in OE-core,
> if some users want to create ${PN}-lic package for each recipe
> via LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE = "1", then they are going to have host contamination
>   warnings for each recipe.
>
> The above commit indicated by Martin does create ${PN}-lic package when
> LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE = "1".

Sorry, I missed this. So if master merges the patch, I will pick it
for jethro.

// Robert

>
> Regards,
> Jagadeesh
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com
> <mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:42:57PM +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Jagadeesh,
>     >
>     > Thanks, usually, patch should go into master branch before go into stable
>     > branch such as jethro. IMHO, jethro branch may not take this fix even if
>     > master merges it. The problem is that oe-core doesn't create package for
>     > ${PN}-lic atm, this patch is treated as part of the enhancement which is
>     > used for working with creating ${PN}-lic.
>
>     Why do you think it isn't able to create ${PN}-lic when configured to do
>     so?
>
>     commit dc78ef91a2bf01efb8028c9afbe69e506e016265
>     Author: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com <mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com>>
>     Date:   Thu Jan 17 12:49:44 2013 +0100
>
>          license.bbclass: package license texts to PN-lic when
>     LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE is enabled
>
>     is already in dylan release.
>
>      > // Robert
>      >
>      > On 11/25/2015 02:54 PM, Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa wrote:
>      > > We get below host contamination warnings of license files for
>      > > each recipe, when we try to create a separate ${PN}-lic package (which
>      > > contains license files), by setting LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE equal to "1"
>      > > in local.conf.
>      > >
>      > > -- snip --
>      > > WARNING: QA Issue: libcgroup:
>     /libcgroup-lic/usr/share/licenses/libcgroup/generic_LGPLv2.1 is owned by uid
>     5001, which is the same as the user running bitbake. This may be due to host
>     contamination [host-user-contaminated]
>      > > WARNING: QA Issue: attr: /attr-lic/usr/share/licenses/attr/libattr.c is
>     owned by uid 5001, which is the same as the user running bitbake. This may
>     be due to host contamination [host-user-contaminated]
>      > > WARNING: QA Issue: bash: /bash-lic/usr/share/licenses/bash/COPYING is
>     owned by uid 5001, which is the same as the user running bitbake. This may
>     be due to host contamination [host-user-contaminated]
>      > > -- CUT --
>      > >
>      > > Since the license files from source and OE-core, are populated in a normal
>      > > shell environment rather in pseudo environment (fakeroot); the ownership of
>      > > these files will be same as host user running bitbake. During the
>     do_package
>      > > task (which runs in pseudo environment (fakeroot)), os.link preserves the
>      > > ownership of these license files as host user instead of root user.
>      > > This causes license files to have UID same as host user id and resulting in
>      > > above warnings during do_package_qa task.
>      > >
>      > > Changing ownership of license files to root user under fakeroot environment
>      > > will solve above warnings, and on exiting fakeroot environment the license
>      > > files will continue to be owned by host user.
>      > >
>      > > Signed-off-by: Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa <jkrishnanjanappa at mvista.com
>     <mailto:jkrishnanjanappa at mvista.com>>
>      > > ---
>      > >   meta/classes/license.bbclass | 1 +
>      > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>      > >
>      > > diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
>      > > index c616a20..d400ac0 100644
>      > > --- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
>      > > +++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
>      > > @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ def copy_license_files(lic_files_paths, destdir):
>      > >                   os.remove(dst)
>      > >               if os.access(src, os.W_OK) and (os.stat(src).st_dev ==
>     os.stat(destdir).st_dev):
>      > >                   os.link(src, dst)
>      > > +                os.chown(dst,os.getuid(),os.getgid())
>      > >               else:
>      > >                   shutil.copyfile(src, dst)
>      > >           except Exception as e:
>      > >
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