[solved] Copying files to build target

[g40]

Documentation is a little thin here. Does anyone have a working example of how to get a file (or files) properly copied into the destination image? Specifically I'm trying to get a binary copied into /sbin on the target.

 

TAIA

 

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To add files to image easily, put them in userpatches/overlay and access them in /tmp/overlay from customize-image.sh

 

[g40]

So,  after some digging around I discovered the following:

 

1. Any files placed in userpatches/overlay automatically get copied by the build process into /tmp/overlay

2. Shortly before the image is finalized, customize-image.sh is run. This is run at the root of the file system '/' as shown by calling `pwd` and `ls -als` from the script itself (see snippet below)

3. So the answer to the copy question is pretty simple. Simply add a line calling `cp /tmp/overlay/myfile` to the destination folder of your choice. Place this where it suits and optionally test the parameters passed to the script for build type/board name etc.

 

Hope this helps someone else. Will add to my upcoming documentation PR.

[ o.k. ] Calling image customization script [ customize-image.sh ]
Inside Main()
pwd
/
ls -als
0 drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  420 Aug 24 12:52 .
0 drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  420 Aug 24 12:52 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 3120 Aug 23 13:38 bin
0 drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  340 Aug 24 12:54 boot
0 drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4240 Aug 22 19:27 dev
0 drwxr-xr-x  91 root root 3520 Aug 24 12:55 etc
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   40 Jul 17 04:02 home
0 drwxr-xr-x  19 root root  640 Aug 24 12:54 lib
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   40 Aug 23 13:33 media
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   40 Aug 23 13:33 mnt
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   40 Aug 23 13:33 opt
0 dr-xr-xr-x 299 root root    0 Aug 13 17:18 proc
0 drwx------   2 root root  100 Aug 24 12:52 root
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   60 Aug 24 12:52 run
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 3600 Aug 23 13:38 sbin
0 drwxrwxr-x   2 root root   40 Aug 24 12:52 selinux
0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   40 Aug 23 13:33 srv
0 dr-xr-xr-x  13 root root    0 Aug 24 12:36 sys
0 drwxrwxrwt   3 root root   80 Aug 24 12:55 tmp
0 drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  200 Aug 23 13:33 usr
0 drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  260 Aug 23 13:33 var