On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Sven Ebenfeld wrote:
> Am 22.02.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> >
> > as much as this disturbs me, i was asked about the easiest way
> > to add arbitrary files scattered across the development host into
> > the final OE-generated image and, based on richard purdie's recent
> > clarification that *everything* that is listed in SRC_URI is
> > unloaded into WORKDIR, i suspect the easiest thing to do is create
> > a recipe where SRC_URI lists all of those files with "file:///",
> > and write an explicit install task that manually copies them, one
> > at a time, into their final location in D, yes?
> >
> > i don't like this at all, but if it has to be done, is this at
> > least the "best" way to do it?
>
> I think the "best" way would be to create one recipe that collects
> these files and just installs them into $D. Then you could select
> this package in IMAGE_INSTALL as you described above.
right ... isn't that what i was describing? or are you suggesting
some variation on that? i was envisioning a single recipe with a
SRC_URI loaded with "file:///" components.
> Another way is to use a ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND if you only need
> to do this for one image.
ah, quite right, another simple option, thanks.
rday
p.s. yes, i do understand that this is a tacky thing to do.
sometimes, you just need to do tacky.
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