[yocto] Is there a recipe class that simply installs files to the target?

[Khem Raj]

On Aug 13, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Brad Litterell <bradl at taser.com> wrote:

> I have some scripts I'd like to copy to the target to a simple folder, e.g. /lib/foo
> 
> Ideally I'd like to just create a simple recipe something like this:
> 
> SRC_URI = "file://lib/foo/foo.sh"
> inherit install_only
> 
> Is there a class like this?  
> 
> It seems like most recipes of this form accomplish this by a custom do_install step, such as this:
> 
> do_install() {
>    install -D -m 755 ${S}/lib/foo/foo.sh ${D}/lib/foo
> }
> 
> and I was just hoping there might be a base class for examining the input files and generating the install steps?
> 


there isn't one. Its not as common a case to abstract out into a class additionally when you have such recipes then
the install paths aren't standard either so adding do_install to recipe and doing it there is OK



> Thanks,
> Brad
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