[OE-core] [jethro][PATCH v2] license.bbclass: fix host contamination warnings for license files

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa
<jkrishnanjanappa at mvista.com> wrote:
>>> WARNING: Could not copy license file
>>> /data/poky-master/tmp/work/corei7-64-poky-linux/gmp/6.0.0-r0/gmp-6.0.0/COPYING.LESSERv3
>>> to
>>> /data/poky-master/tmp/work/corei7-64-poky-linux/gmp/6.0.0-r0/license-destdir/gmp/COPYING.LESSERv3:
>>> [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>>> '/data/poky-master/tmp/work/corei7-64-poky-linux/gmp/6.0.0-r0/license-destdir/gmp/COPYING.LESSERv3'
>
> The above warning comes up during do_populate_lic task, and this task
> is not being executed in pseudo environment. So changing ownership of
> license files to root user (explicitly via "0") fails, as normal user
> doesn't have permissions to do so.
>
> In this case, use of os.getuid() and os.getgid() behaves correctly, by
> giving normal user id and solving this warning. So this is one
> advantage of using os.getuid() and os.getgid() over explicit "0".

The real fix would be put this to run under pseudo, it seems.

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