[yocto] sysroot not being populated

[Khem Raj]

Hi Patrick

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Patrick Vacek <patrick.vacek at here.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a recipe (aktualizr-hsm-prov) that depends on another (aktualizr)
> to provide an executable and a config file. The former recipe includes
> `DEPENDS = "aktualizr-native"`, and my do_install() for
> aktualizr-hsm-prov has a line something like this:
>
> aktualizr -i ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${libdir}/sota.conf
>
> The binary executable (aktualizr) runs, which tells me that the recipe
> can find that. (Although to be honest, I'm not sure which version it is
> running.) However, it doesn't find the config file, and sure enough,
> ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${libdir} does not have the config file I expect. I
> can see that aktualizr-native is populating its sysroot-destdir, but it
> isn't getting copied to the sysroot for aktualizr-hsm-prov.
>
> I see this problem in sumo and master, although previously this logic
> has worked just fine in morty/pyro/rocko.
>
> Switching to depending on aktualizr (instead of aktualizr-native) and
> using STAGING_DIR_HOST or STAGING_DIR_TARGET does not help, and in fact
> makes it worse, as it can't even find the aktualizr executable in that case.
>
> What am I doing wrong? What changed between rocko and sumo?

is aktualizr recipe installing this .conf file when building native
version. If not may be
add it to do_install

install -D -m 0644 <path/to/sota.conf> ${D}${libdir}/sota.conf