[yocto] Best practice for files copied directly into sysroot?

[Michael Habibi]

Thanks Bryan!

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>
wrote:

> Michael,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> > bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Michael Habibi
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 10:26 AM
> > To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> > Subject: [yocto] Best practice for files copied directly into sysroot?
> >
> > I am working on potentially migrating our distribution to Yocto (will be
> a long,
> > long process). We have an area of our filesystem where any file placed
> will go
> > directly into the rootfs of the target. This works well with our
> product, as we
> > have certain binaries and scripts that need to be copied directly, and
> there's
> > no other real step involved (no compilation, etc). Is there a best
> practice or
> > existing class that handles this? I saw mention of a binary/ directory
> but I
> > wasn't sure if that was for this or something else.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
>
> I'm glad I decided to answer your question because I think I found an
> easier way to do it than I have been doing this in the past.  If you want
> to be able to update the files on your system at a later date, you will
> want to make your own recipe which installs the binaries and scripts onto
> the rootfs.  In general you create a recipe which does not have
> do_configure or do_compile tasks.  There is a class that does this already
> called "bin_package" that does this for you.  See the "Packaging Externally
> Produced Binaries" section of the manual here:
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.0/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#new-recipe-testing-examples.
>  So if you include the line "inherit bin_package" and follow the
> instructions in that section of the manual, it should install all the files
> to the rootfs that are included in the recipe.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan
>
>
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