[poky] gnutls-2.12.14-r3.1 - strange rpm names yocto

[Foinel]

Hi, I think I've narrowed the problem down to wpa-supplicant.
If you look into wpa-supplicant-0.7.3/defconfig-gnutls you can see
there CONFIG_GNUTLS_EXTRA=y. Commenting out this CONFIG_GNUTLS_EXTRA=y
creates a build into which I do not have anymore the libraries from
the -extra rpm.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 12:22 +0200, Foinel wrote:
>> Looking at gnutls-2.12.14/libextra/COPYING it says just GPLv3, so no
>> dual licensing or exceptions of any kind for these extra libraries.
>> Can anyone explain why in
>> meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc it says:
>>
>> # This is a list of packages that are used by the build system to
>> build the distribution, they are not
>> # directly part of the distribution..
>> HOSTTOOLS_WHITELIST_GPLv3 ?= ""
>> WHITELIST_GPLv3 ?= "less"
>> LGPLv2_WHITELIST_GPLv3 ?= "libassuan gnutls libtasn1 libidn libgcc gcc-runtime"
>>
>> Does this mean gnutls is some sort of a host tool?
>> Because of this fact (gnutls being in LGPLv2_WHITELIST_GPLv3), then
>> the restriction to avoid GPLv3 packages seems not applicable to
>> gnutls. Does anyone know if gnutls is a special case in what concerns
>> the licensing?
>
> I think we were only including GPLv2 pieces of gnutls in most images. If
> something is now pulling in the -extras package, we have a problem. It
> sounds like we should remove it from the whitelist.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>