On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The main motivation for this class was the observation that
> a) a core-image can hang under qemu when the kernel does not
>    have enough entropy to generate the ssh host key
> b) ssh complains about changing ssh host key files when
>    rebooting the same machine with different images
>
> For debugging it is okay to reuse an ssh host key generated on the device
> before. There may be also similar use cases, so the class is generic
> enough to
> also copy more than one file or directory, with dropbear_rsa_host_key
> given as
> example.
>
> The documentation and naming of the class makes it clear that it
> should not be used for production images.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>
>

Freescale's merge-files recipe may be worth looking at as an alternative to
this.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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