How do I add my custom directory entirely to the rootfs of the yocto project?

Question

I want to add a non-empty directory to Yocto rootfs

I proceeded by writing the do_install statement, but it was not possible to copy an entire non-empty folder to rootfs with "install -m".

 do_install() {
    install -m 0755 /MYDirectory ${D}/MyDirectory
}

This seems to fail because you can only copy a single file

What can I try?

LetoThe2nd LetoThe2nd · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-24T08:23:56

and don't forget to add the directory to FILES, e.g.

FILES_${PN} += "/MyDirectory"