Installing a directory tree of files into the target filesystem

Installing a directory tree of files into the target filesystem

[Joe Nicholson]

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Hi Guys 

First post on here :-) 

I'd like to create a recipe that copies a whole directory tree of files
into a directory on the output filesystem. There's nothing to build
here... it's just a web application with html files, image files, .js
files, etc. 
What would be the best way of doing this?
I can see that a small number of files and directories are installed
individually using 'install' and 'install -d', is there an equivalent
that just copies a whole tree of files into place? 

Cheers! 

Joe 

 

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Re: Installing a directory tree of files into the target filesystem

[Adam Hughes]

Hi Joe,
> First post on here :-)

My first post too.

> I'd like to create a recipe that copies a whole directory tree
> of files into a directory on the output filesystem.

I faced the same problem, and resorted to "cp -r" (after making sure the directory was there using "install -d").  In my case, I didn't need to mess with permissions so I didn't need to full power of install.

See http://superuser.com/questions/229883/how-is-install-c-different-from-cp for a bit more chapter and verse.

Cheers,

Adam

Re: Installing a directory tree of files into the target filesystem

[Joe Nicholson]

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Thanks Adam. 

I don't have any major permissions issues either, so will definitely try
that. I assume I could just explicitly set the permissions on the target
directory as a later step in do_install if needed. 

Thanks also for the link. 

Cheers! 

Joe 

On 2014-07-09 14:56, Adam Hughes wrote: 

> Hi Joe,
> 
>> First post on here :-)
> 
> My first post too.
> 
>> I'd like to create a recipe that copies a whole directory tree of files into a directory on the output filesystem.
> 
> I faced the same problem, and resorted to "cp -r" (after making sure the directory was there using "install -d"). In my case, I didn't need to mess with permissions so I didn't need to full power of install.
> 
> See http://superuser.com/questions/229883/how-is-install-c-different-from-cp [1] for a bit more chapter and verse.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Adam

 

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http://superuser.com/questions/229883/how-is-install-c-different-from-cp

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