[yocto] Adding test files to an image

[jfabernathy]

On 03/08/2012 05:32 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-03-08 15:26, jfabernathy wrote:
>> On 03/08/2012 05:07 PM, Autif Khan wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:43 PM, jfabernathy<jfabernathy at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 03/08/2012 04:33 PM, Rudolf Streif wrote:
>>>>> Jeff,
>>>>>
>>>>> Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:
>>>>>
>>>>> SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"
>>>>>
>>>>> and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the 
>>>>> recipe is
>>>>> located. The file fetcher copies the entire path
>>>>> myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rudi
>>>> that didn't solve the problem. I still get file not found errors. The
>>>> videos are unpack to WORKDIR, but the do_install is looking for 
>>>> them in S.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> install -d
>>>> /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos 
>>>>
>>>> install -m 0644
>>>> /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/myvideos-1.0/* 
>>>>
>>>> /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think I need to control where the do_unpack puts the files.
>>>>
>>> Just a dumb thought, but I have been bitten many times by it.
>>>
>>> please try bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate
>>>
>>> then bitbake myvideos to build the recipe.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you can of course rev up the PR everytime you change
>>> the recipe. But that is cumbersome.
>>>
>>> And yes, I forgot to mention in my previous mail that the
>>> mypics-1.0.tar.gz is located in
>>> meta-autif/recipes-autif/mypics/mypics-1.0/mypics-1.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>> As Rudolf suggested - bitbake is a bit finickey about '-' and '_'
>> I was doing a "bitbake -c cleanall myvideos" before each run of 
>> bitbake myvideos, but I just now tried bitbake myvideos -c 
>> cleansstate with no change in behavior.
>>
>> It seems clear to me that do_unpack unpacks the tar.gz file to the
>>
>> ${WORKDIR}
>>
>> but install is looking for them in
>>
>> ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}
>>
>>
>> Since S is not defined, I think the default is ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}
>>
>> Not sure how to fix that.
>
> Set S to be what you need in the recipe, e.g.
>   S = "${WORKDIR}/jfabernathy-${PV}"
> or whatever it is you need
>
Thanks,  I know I can change S, but I need to change where do_unpack 
puts the files.  with them in WORKDIR, I can't just say WORKDIR/* 
because there are a lot of other files and directories at that level.

I need do_unpack to put the files from tar.gz into S for example.

Jim A