Internal/external packages¶

Packages are either internal or external packages. All packages are considered external by default unless explicitly configured as internal through either a project configuration or a package option. Internal or external packages are treated the same except for the following:

An internal package will not generate output warnings if the package is missing hash information or an ASCII-armor.
An internal package will not generate output warnings if the package is missing licenses.
When configured for local-sources mode, only internal packages which have local sources configured will have their fetch, extract and patch stages skipped.

An individual package can be configured as internal using LIBFOO_INTERNAL. For example:

LIBFOO_INTERNAL = True

Developers may want to instead use the project configuration default_internal to configure all packages as internal by default:

default_internal = True