Adding test files to an image

Suppose I want to build the meta-intel/meta-sugarbay image and also include some video and audio files into the /home/root directory to facilitate testing of the video and audio players.

Can I include these files in a recipe somewhere?

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Suppose I want to build the meta-intel/meta-sugarbay image and also include some video and audio files into the /home/root directory to facilitate testing of the video and audio players.

Can I include these files in a recipe somewhere?

I use the recipe at the end of this message to include whatever I want. This recipe has to be added to the image - I have a custom image, so it goes in there. I am sure a recipe can be added to something in local.conf - I just do not know that variable. My guess it is IMAGE_IMSTALL += "mypics".

Regardless ...

mypics-1.0.tar.gz contains a file called COPYING and its mds5um on the 2nd line. It can be replaced with a license from common licenses directory - but at the time when I wrote this recipe, I did not know how to do that. Anything that goes in there ends up in /home/root/mypics.

It can probably be tweaked to look better - I am sure SRC_URI line is not perfect. But it seems to work between Edison to master

For larger files - like video worth 200MB or so, I just store them on a hard disk and mount manually on /media/hdd or where-ever. Not that it wont work in this recipe, just that it would take longer to build the image etc.

All the best. Hopefully, this will get you started in the right direction.

LICENSE = "MyLic"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=697172b05e4bff0a2421579697ba5653"

MY_DESTINATION = "/home/root/mypics"

SRC_URI = "file://mypics-1.0/mypics-1.0.tar.gz"

do_install_append() {
         install -d ${D}${MY_DESTINATION}
         install -m 0644  ${S}/* ${D}${MY_DESTINATION}
}

PR = "r0"

FILES_${PN} += "${MY_DESTINATION}/*"

Jeff,

Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:

SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"

and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the recipe is located. The file fetcher copies the entire path myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.

Rudi

Quoted 5 lines · Rudolf Streif

Jeff,

Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:

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SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"

and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the recipe is located. The file fetcher copies the entire path myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.

Rudi

that didn't solve the problem. I still get file not found errors.  The videos are unpack to WORKDIR, but the do_install is looking for them in S.

      install -d /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos install -m 0644 /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/myvideos-1.0/* /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

I think I need to control where the do_unpack puts the files.

Quoted 16 lines · jfabernathy

Quoted 11 lines · Rudolf Streif

Jeff,

Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:

SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"

and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the recipe is located. The file fetcher copies the entire path myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.

Rudi

that didn't solve the problem. I still get file not found errors. The videos are unpack to WORKDIR, but the do_install is looking for them in S.

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install -d
/build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

        install -m 0644

/build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/myvideos-1.0/* /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

I think I need to control where the do_unpack puts the files.

Just a dumb thought, but I have been bitten many times by it.

please try bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate

then bitbake myvideos to build the recipe.

Alternatively, you can of course rev up the PR everytime you change the recipe. But that is cumbersome.

And yes, I forgot to mention in my previous mail that the mypics-1.0.tar.gz is located in meta-autif/recipes-autif/mypics/mypics-1.0/mypics-1.0.tar.gz

As Rudolf suggested - bitbake is a bit finickey about '-' and '_'

Quoted 31 lines · Autif Khan

Quoted 16 lines · jfabernathy

Quoted 11 lines · Rudolf Streif

Jeff,

Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:

SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"

and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the recipe is located. The file fetcher copies the entire path myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.

Rudi

that didn't solve the problem. I still get file not found errors. The videos are unpack to WORKDIR, but the do_install is looking for them in S.

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install -d /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos install -m 0644 /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/myvideos-1.0/* /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

I think I need to control where the do_unpack puts the files.

Just a dumb thought, but I have been bitten many times by it.

please try bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate

then bitbake myvideos to build the recipe.

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Alternatively, you can of course rev up the PR everytime you change the recipe. But that is cumbersome.

And yes, I forgot to mention in my previous mail that the mypics-1.0.tar.gz is located in meta-autif/recipes-autif/mypics/mypics-1.0/mypics-1.0.tar.gz

As Rudolf suggested - bitbake is a bit finickey about '-' and '_'

I was doing a "bitbake -c cleanall myvideos" before each run of bitbake myvideos, but I just now tried bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate with no change in behavior.

It seems clear to me that do_unpack unpacks the tar.gz file to the

${WORKDIR}

but install is looking for them in

${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}

Since S is not defined, I think the default is ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}

Not sure how to fix that.

Quoted 54 lines · jfabernathy

Quoted 34 lines · Autif Khan

Quoted 19 lines · jfabernathy

Quoted 11 lines · Rudolf Streif

Jeff,

Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:

SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"

and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the recipe is located. The file fetcher copies the entire path myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.

Rudi

that didn't solve the problem. I still get file not found errors. The videos are unpack to WORKDIR, but the do_install is looking for them in S.

install -d /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

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install -m 0644 /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/myvideos-1.0/*

/build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

I think I need to control where the do_unpack puts the files.

Just a dumb thought, but I have been bitten many times by it.

please try bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate

then bitbake myvideos to build the recipe.

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Alternatively, you can of course rev up the PR everytime you change the recipe. But that is cumbersome.

And yes, I forgot to mention in my previous mail that the mypics-1.0.tar.gz is located in meta-autif/recipes-autif/mypics/mypics-1.0/mypics-1.0.tar.gz

As Rudolf suggested - bitbake is a bit finickey about '-' and '_'

I was doing a "bitbake -c cleanall myvideos" before each run of bitbake myvideos, but I just now tried bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate with no change in behavior.

It seems clear to me that do_unpack unpacks the tar.gz file to the

${WORKDIR}

but install is looking for them in

${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}

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Since S is not defined, I think the default is ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}

Not sure how to fix that.

Set S to be what you need in the recipe, e.g.
S = "${WORKDIR}/jfabernathy-${PV}"
or whatever it is you need

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Set S to be what you need in the recipe, e.g.
S = "${WORKDIR}/jfabernathy-${PV}"
or whatever it is you need

Thanks, I know I can change S, but I need to change where do_unpack puts the files. with them in WORKDIR, I can't just say WORKDIR/* because there are a lot of other files and directories at that level.

I need do_unpack to put the files from tar.gz into S for example.

Quoted 54 lines · jfabernathy

Quoted 34 lines · Autif Khan

Quoted 19 lines · jfabernathy

Quoted 11 lines · Rudolf Streif

Jeff,

Use hyphen instead of underscore for the subdirectory SRC_URI:

SRC_URI = "file://myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz"

and of course for the subdirectory in the subdirectory where the recipe is located. The file fetcher copies the entire path myvideos-1.0/myvideos-1.0.tar.gz to ${WORKDIR}.

Rudi

that didn't solve the problem. I still get file not found errors. The videos are unpack to WORKDIR, but the do_install is looking for them in S.

install -d /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

Quoted 8 lines

install -m 0644 /build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/myvideos-1.0/*

/build/sugarbay-master/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/myvideos-1.0-r0/image/home/root/myvideos

I think I need to control where the do_unpack puts the files.

Just a dumb thought, but I have been bitten many times by it.

please try bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate

then bitbake myvideos to build the recipe.

Quoted 8 lines

Alternatively, you can of course rev up the PR everytime you change the recipe. But that is cumbersome.

And yes, I forgot to mention in my previous mail that the mypics-1.0.tar.gz is located in meta-autif/recipes-autif/mypics/mypics-1.0/mypics-1.0.tar.gz

As Rudolf suggested - bitbake is a bit finickey about '-' and '_'

I was doing a "bitbake -c cleanall myvideos" before each run of bitbake myvideos, but I just now tried bitbake myvideos -c cleansstate with no change in behavior.

It seems clear to me that do_unpack unpacks the tar.gz file to the

${WORKDIR}

but install is looking for them in

${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}

Quoted 3 lines

Since S is not defined, I think the default is ${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV}

Not sure how to fix that.

Set S to be what you need in the recipe, e.g.
S = "${WORKDIR}/jfabernathy-${PV}"
or whatever it is you need

So what I can get to work is the following recipe, but what I want is not o have to specify the file extension:

Quoted 3 lines · jfabernathy

So what I can get to work is the following recipe, but what I want is not o have to specify the file extension:

you may be able to build your archive in a directory like :
myvideos-1.0/files.mp4, so that your files will be available in ${S} = ${WORKDIR}/myvideos-1.0/

Eric

Suppose I want to build the meta-intel/meta-sugarbay image and also include some video and audio files into the /home/root directory to facilitate testing of the video and audio players.