elbe-genlicence

NAME

elbe-genlicence - Generate a file containing the licences of the packages included in a project.

SYNOPSIS

elbe genlicence \
        [ --output <filename> ] \
        [ --xml <xmlfilename> ] \
        <project-dir>

DESCRIPTION

elbe-genlicence creates a file which will contain the licences of the packages included in a project, generated from the copyright files in the /usr/share/doc/* directories of the root filesystem.

This command has to be run inside the Elbe build VM.

OPTIONS

--output <filename>: Write the result to <filename> instead of licence.txt.
--xml <xmlfilename>: Write an xml file with all the licenses to <xmlfilename>.
--buildtype <buildtype>: Override the buildtype.
--skip-validation: Skip xml schema validation.

<project>: The build directory of the project to process.

EXAMPLES

Generate a licence file for the project in /var/cache/elbe/<uuid> and name the result myproject-licences.txt.
```
# elbe genlicence --output myproject-licences.txt /var/cache/elbe/<uuid>
```

ELBE

Part of the elbe(1) suite