[yocto] Creating a recipe to create /usr/local

[Yukatharsani Jeyachandra]

Please add
     FILES_PN = "${prefix}/local/*"  line in your recipe.

Thanks,
yukatharsani J.

On 28-11-2014 14:50, Chan Kit Yu wrote:
> Not sure if you wanna read through the log file. I was initially
> dumbfounded but reading through the log I think I found the issue.
> Here's the main error (I think) that could have caused the failure.
> (my package name is "folder"):
>
> ERROR: folder not found in the base feeds (valleyisland_64
> corei7-64-intel-common corei7-64 core2-64 x86_64 noarch any all).
>
> I also attached the error log so feel free to parse it if you feel like it.
>
> Thanks,
> Chan Kit
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 01:55, Chan Kit Yu <yuchankit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would also like to add that bitbaking that recipe alone was fine but
>>> bitbaking my image to include that package failed.
>> I'm not sure what's going on - can you post the error message (or at least the relevant part)?
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Chan Kit Yu <yuchankit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much :-)
>>>> But it was no good. I still get the same error even with the "install" use.
>>>>
>>>> Here I attach the full recipe just in case I did wrong somewhere:
>>>>
>>>> SUMMARY = "Create /usr/local"
>>>> SECTION = "meta-networking"
>>>> LICENSE = "MIT"
>>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>>>> "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
>>>> #INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped"
>>>>
>>>> do_install(){
>>>>         install -d  ${D}${prefix}/local/
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Chan Kit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 27 Nov 2014, at 07:09, Chan Kit Yu <yuchankit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure if emailing this is the most appropriate way and I
>>>>>> apologize in advance if that's not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have some scripts that require /usr/local to exist in Yocto and
>>>>>> therefore I need to a recipe to create /usr/local directory. I tried
>>>>>> to accomplish this with a simple recipe but that proved futile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Although bitbaking that particular recipe was fine, trying to include
>>>>>> that package in local.conf resulted errors and those errors are
>>>>>> gibberish (it listed all the packages inside the image that I was
>>>>>> trying to comple) . Here's my simple stupid recipe:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SUMMARY= "...."
>>>>>> LICENSE = "something...."
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "installed-vs-shipped"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> do_install(){
>>>>>>     mkdir -p ${D}/usr/local
>>>>>> }
>>>>> You need to use 'install' rather than mkdir
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a better way (or preferably the canonical way) to do this?
>>>>> Yes, there are some definitions you can use. In your case it would be:
>>>>>
>>>>>    # Install the 'local' directory to make sure it exists
>>>>>    install -d ${D}${prefix}/local
>>>>>
>>>>>    # Install a file to this location
>>>>>    install -f ${WORKDIR}/myfile ${D}${prefix}/local
>>>>>
>>>>> The available definitions are shown at the top of meta/conf/bitbake.conf in your Poky installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris Tapp
>>>>> opensource at keylevel.com
>>>>> www.keylevel.com
>>>>>
>>>>> ----
>>>>> You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap!
>>>>>
>> --
>>
>> Chris Tapp
>> opensource at keylevel.com
>> www.keylevel.com
>>
>> ----
>> You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap!
>>
>>
>>

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