Let's have a quick look at the WORKDIR directory. Most of these directories are created and populated when the related task is executed. To have a look at it, let's execute the following command:
$ tree tmp/work/cortexa8hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/helloworld/0.1-r0/ -dL 1
Here is the output of this command:
tmp/work/cortexa8hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/helloworld/0.1-r0/ ├── deploy-ipks ├── image ├── license-destdir ├── package ├── packages-split ├── patches ├── pkgdata ├── pseudo ├── sysroot-destdir └── temp
Let's go through these by giving a short description of each:
deploy-ipks: The final package (ipkin our case) is placed in this directory.image: Image contents go into this directory. TheDo_installtask installs contents to this directory before they are added to the respective packages.license-destdir: License-related information is contained in this directory.package: This is a shared place that contains package data when it is being generated, during the...