From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com (astoria.ccjclearline.com [64.235.106.9]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DFE606E8 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=49957 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YPRyc-00064A-R6 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:33:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:33:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: OE Core mailing list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: 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 08:33:26 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================