[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/7] Add PURL support

Thomas Perale thomas.perale at mind.be
Tue Apr 15 19:55:33 UTC 2025


This patch series add support for the PURL.

https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec

PURL are a software identifier similar to CPE.
More information on PURL can be found in the first patch of the series.

After testing the usage of PURL with DependencyTrack and
https://ossindex.sonatype.org I can see that it improves the tracking
of CVEs and version bump. Since it's easy to automate the PURL
generation in buildroot I wrote this patch that I use to add PURL to
CycloneDX SBOM.

The series includes support for PURL for these 'ecosystems':
  - pypi
  - cargo
  - cpan
  - golang

The tracking of CPAN packages is not supported by OSSIndex but these
changes were proposed by François Perrad in the following series:

https://lore.kernel.org/buildroot/20240407144250.7558-1-francois.perrad@gadz.org/

Thomas Perale (7):
  package/pkg-generic.mk: add PURL package variable
  package/pkg-download: add 'owner' macro
  package/pkg-golang: support PURL generation
  package/pkg-cargo: support PURL generation
  package/pkg-perl: support PURL generation
  package/pkg-python: support PURL generation
  package/pkg-utils: add PURL to show-info output

 package/pkg-cargo.mk     |  8 ++++++
 package/pkg-download.mk  |  3 +++
 package/pkg-generic.mk   | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 package/pkg-golang.mk    | 16 ++++++++++++
 package/pkg-perl.mk      | 24 ++++++++++++++++++
 package/pkg-python.mk    | 16 ++++++++++++
 package/pkg-utils.mk     |  3 +++
 utils/generate-cyclonedx |  3 +++
 8 files changed, 126 insertions(+)

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2.49.0



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