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With Yocto, how can I add a lot of files to an image?

How can I add a lot of files to an image with a BitBake recipe?

The pattern that I follow to add files to an image is the following: 

SRC_URI += "file://bar"
do_install () {   
    install -m 0775 ${S}/bar/baz/foo.txt ${D}${prefix}/test 
}
FILES_${PN} += "${prefix}"
FILES_${PN} += "${prefix}test"
FILES_${PN} += "${prefix}test/foo.txt"

Which works great for a few files. However, this can be really tedious for large amounts of files. The problem seems to be that I need to specify each file that I want to package. Is there some way to avoid this?

Solution

  • If all the files are in a single directory you can just put the directory in FILES and it will recurse for you. So if you had another 100 files in ${prefix}/test then FILES_${PN} = "${prefix}/test" would package them all in $PN.