How do I write a yocto/bitbake recipe to copy a directory to the target root file system

Question

I have a directory of \'binary\' (i.e. not to be compiled) files and just want them to be installed onto my target root file system.

I have looked at several articles,

Answer 1

Take care that with a simple recursive copy, you will end up having host contamination warnings so you would need to copy with the following parameters:

do_install() {
     [...]
     cp --preserve=mode,timestamps -R ${S}${anydir}/Data/* ${D}${anyotherdir}/Data
     [...]
}

As other recipes in poky do, or just follow the official recommendations to avoid problems with ownership and permissions.