On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:06 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 May 2011 00:20:14 Joshua Lock wrote:
> > > * Check when calculating dependencies if anything is scheduled to be
> > > built that is on the blacklist - if any are, gather all of them up and
> > > then stop and list them in an error message along with reason and
> > > depchain for each one
> >
> > This sounds like overlap with a task Scott Garman is set to work on
> > (Error handling in bitbake), let's make sure you guys are collaborating
> > here.
> > http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542
>
> I hadn't considered this - you may well be right. It depends on how Scott
> proposes to attack that particular problem, I will check with him.
Cool. If they don't overlap I'd be surprised.
>
> > > * Replace COMMERCIAL* with some more generic exclusion mechanism that
> > > allows the reason to be defined as part of the exclusion list?
> >
> > Sounds reasonable, care to elaborate? Something like:
> >
> > COMMERCIAL_LICENSE = "naughty packages from copyright hell"
> > PERL_PACKAGES = "packages I don't want to include because I dislike
> > Perl"
> > EXCLUDED_PATTERNS = "PERL_PACKAGES COMMERCIAL_LICENSE"
>
> More like:
>
> EXCLUDED_PACKAGES += "broken1,broken2:These packages are broken by design and
> not supported;"
> EXCLUDED_PACKAGES += "licenserequired,clickthru,special1:These packages
> require a special license agreement;"
>
> The example syntax is horrible but you get the idea.
The idea is sound, yeah.
>
> > > * As a helper for non-en_US users, fail on parse if user defines any of
> > > the *LICENSE* variables as *LICENCE*? (we definitely don't want the build
> > > to continue and just ignore this as the user might not realise what has
> > > happened)
> >
> > Darn tootin!
>
> I think you meant to say "hear hear!" or maybe even "good show!"... ;)
>
Bravo!
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
Yocto Build System Monkey
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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