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

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:26:15 Michael Habibi wrote:
> 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.

I see you got your answer - but I wanted to point out when you wrote "sysroot" 
you meant "rootfs" - these two aren't the same thing. The sysroot is the area 
used to share files between recipes (e.g. libraries and headers); whilst it can 
look a bit similar to what ends up in the rootfs it's actually completely 
separate.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre