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

[Michael Habibi]

Bryan,

I looked through the documentation and I'm a bit unclear on how to use
bin_package, and haven't been able to find a good example. Where do I
actually place my rootfs files/binaries to get copied to my image rootfs?
Under ${THISDIR}/${PN} like other recipe artifacts? How does it copy them
to ${S}? Or is this something I need to do?

Thanks,
Michael

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Michael Habibi <mikehabibi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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