[ELDK] complete sources for ELDK target images

Matthias Fuchs mfuchs at ma-fu.de
Thu Dec 11 09:55:51 CET 2014


Hi Christian,

On 12/10/2014 10:51 PM, Christian Ege wrote:
> Hello Mathias,
> Am 10.12.2014 20:25 schrieb "Matthias Fuchs" <mfuchs at ma-fu.de>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what's the best way to collect all sourcecode and licenses that are
>> involved in an ELDK/yocto based target image? So that these files can be
>> used to provide the complete sourcecode for a given target (in order to
>> fulfill license demands)
>>
>> One method could be to provide the ELDK git repository and the download
>> directory that is created during the build process. But this contains
>> more sources than are required to build a special target image (also
>> contains toolchain and other images releated files).
>>
>> The installed_pkgs.txt file only lists the package names and not the
>> sources itself.
>>
>> I expect this to be a common task when creating yocto based products.
>> But I did not find the best way so far.
>>
> Yes, you can do it. The yocto project has some documentation on this.
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6.1/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#maintaining-open-source-license-compliance-during-your-products-lifecycle
> 
> Due too the fact that eldk is based on yocto this should apply to eldk as
> well.
> 
> We create for example a DVD image with all related source + Licence
> information for every release build.
Thanks for pointing up. That will help.

Matthias



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