Bitbake not installing my file in the rootfs image

Question

I have created a bitbake recipe that would copy 2 of my files (firmware binaries for VPU) into /lib/firmware/ directory on targets root filesystem.

I have tried

Answer 1

Thanks, good starting point. I finally did it this way for installing two .sh scripts.

I created this file structure (the folder name "files" is automatically known by Yocto and can best be kept as is):

    > bitbake-layers create-layer meta-mylayer
    > cp -r meta-mylayer ../sources/yocto/meta-layers/
    > cat >> conf/bblayers.conf << EOF
    > ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-mynetworklayer \
    > EOF
    > pwd
    /yocto/meta-layers/meta-mylayer/recipes-tools/somename
    > tree .
    .
    ├── files
    │   ├── somescript1.sh
    │   └── somescript2.sh
    └── somename.bb

I added the refenrence to "somename" to the local.conf:

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " somename"

And the somename.bb file looks this way:

DESCRIPTION = "Some description"

LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"

SRC_URI += " file://somescript1.sh \
             file://somescript2.sh \
           "

inherit allarch
do_compile[noexec] = "1"

do_install() {
    install -d ${D}${bindir}
    install -m 0770 ${WORKDIR}/somescript*.sh ${D}/${bindir}
}

Yocto will find the files in the folder "files" automatically, it will copy them to the temporary ${WORKDIR} and the second "install" line makes sure that both files will later on the target be present in the folder /usr/bin. Because ${bindir} (e.g. /usr/bin) is used as copy target no FILES_${PN} is needed in this case.