how to (yuck) add arbitrary external files into an image?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  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?

rday

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