Bitbake Recipe for a python3 repository that provides a CLI as a binary

Question

I have some simple python3 scripts that I packaged in such a way that upon pip install . within the repository one can use the scripts within the bin folder as a CLI e.g.

 $ gpsinflux # execute the script as cli

source

gpsinflux repository.

Workflow

1. I used devtool add gpsinflux url_of_repo

2. I already managed to add influxdb-python as a recipe based on my findings in my previous SE Query regarding python application on yocto

3. Edit the recipe to add RDEPENDS_PN

However do I need to mention within the recipe that I want the script in the bin folder from my repository to be installed in say, /usr/bin folder or will the recipe do that automatically?

Answer 1

Checked on Target Hardware

One does not require to perform do_install() at all. If the setup.py does have packages=[bin/script1] then upon sucessfully baking the recipe and adding the recipe to you Root Filesystem will automatically provide your script1 in /usr/bin/ folder.

Cross Reference

I looked into python-awscli example in meta-iot-cloud and there it is no mention of do_install()

in the same repository if one needs to port python2.7 to python3 one can use sed to change the shebang of the bin/script1 using do_install_append()