Stages (copies) a subset of the files installed by the
do_install
task into the appropriate sysroot.
For information on how to access these files from other recipes,
see the
STAGING_DIR*
variables.
Directories that would typically not be needed by other recipes at
build time (e.g. /etc
) are not copied by
default.
For information on what directories are copied by default, see the
SYSROOT_DIRS*
variables.
You can change these variables inside your recipe if you need
to make additional (or fewer) directories available to other
recipes at build time.
The do_populate_sysroot
task is a
shared state (sstate) task, which means that the task can
be accelerated through sstate use.
Realize also that if the task is re-executed, any previous output
is removed (i.e. "cleaned").