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

[Chan Kit Yu]

Thanks for saving me from myself. I will try it out and let you know my
results
On Nov 28, 2014 7:22 PM, "Paul Barker" <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:

> On 27 November 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"
>
> This line is hiding the warning that a file has been installed (copied
> into ${D} by your do_install function) but not shipped (which means
> placed in an actual package).
>
> /usr/local isn't usually populated so isn't included in a package by
> default, you can modify FILES_xxx to change what is included in the
> package 'xxx'. In a recipe the main package name (which is based off
> the recipe file name), is stored in ${PN}.
>
> So basically, you need to add something like:
>     FILES_${PN} += "/usr/local"
>
> Also, you should never need to use INSANE_SKIP unless you're doing
> something that is actually insane. Those warnings are there for a
> reason!
>
> >
> > do_install(){
> >      mkdir -p ${D}/usr/local
> > }
> >
> > Is there a better way (or preferably the canonical way) to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chan Kit
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Paul Barker
>
> Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
> http://www.paulbarker.me.uk
>
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