I was asked by a colleague for the difference between do_deploy and do_install,
which I both used mostly by checking similar recipes and copying their methods,
but now I'm having some questions as well. The Yocto dev manual doesn't list
deploy at all, so my assumption is that why do_install is the default,
do_deploy is used to extend some functionality.
So my understanding for "do_install" is that it should copy the files build and
provided (in ${B/S}) into ${D}, where they will be picked up by the mechanism
used to create RPMs. So everything I want to end up in my rootfs needs to be
installed in the correct location (as in ${D} equals the / folder of my rootfs).
Do_deploy however is documented in the reference manual as " Writes output
files that are to be deployed to ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}. The task runs with the
current working directory set to ${B}.", which sounds pretty much like what I
described above. So how is this different from do_install, other than it seems
to me that do_deploy uses the extra temporary dir ${DEPLOYDIR} (without an
underscore)?
So is there any guidance when and what for to use either?
Thanks, Olli
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