From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com (mail-we0-f176.google.com [74.125.82.176]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA918606E8 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wesw62 with SMTP id w62so12689791wes.9 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:46:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QE9TgpNnUhK5k4x6kUZIMhTk3De47O4GCJ9Z9BwqExE=; b=QmnwWBse7CKtf4fYQpOQcTJSgrvCnNdShm1BcmnUnVlbWu5xseOn9rzFDX5nZIBqd7 KN+hPX8RKjWTE1i4MMZwl0hkVsMHBaqq7+Z/78X41tjPUebg9hptf1hNW1WJPtLjiP/O vwZT6HHOSdJv4RLhGgMssa5PmbneVY/8D+X257wG7xHC2kk2hYDxxvD7DPXhOURu654l rZGIDoWSwYx4b/hkMfVHrl2iQxTYs9bw4Yem/nW8tzcV2TYZl1Fi531gIbQV+w/gRlTJ mKWRenePkF0LHuAp1kbJFKhTlZRSK+VgqbRhoXi7+rpR0q3JfsexRLp2idi14nDfPcXk mWJA== X-Received: by 10.180.105.97 with SMTP id gl1mr10285209wib.74.1424594794540; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:46:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.50.198] (ip-84-119-96-251.unity-media.net. [84.119.96.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hm6sm50105635wjb.32.2015.02.22.00.46.33 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:46:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54E99779.2030405@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:46:49 +0100 From: Sven Ebenfeld User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org, rpjday@crashcourse.ca References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: how to (yuck) add arbitrary external files into an image? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:46:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Another way is to use a ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND if you only need to do this for one image.