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

[Michael Habibi]

Yes you're right thanks for correcting - I meant rootfs!

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>
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