# State scripts not integrating with Yocto
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** yocto, x86, warrior
**Created:** [June 20, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083 "2020-06-20T08:55:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fnx\_qt](https://hub.mender.io/u/fnx_qt)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083/1 "2020-06-20T08:55:15Z")
Hello,
I’m using Yocto to create a custom image for an x86-64 embedded system. The image is working fine and Mender too. However, I’m having trouble adding state scripts to the artifact.
I use the following recipes in a custom layer:
```
recipes-mender
├── hello-mender
│ └── hello-mender.bb
├── mender-client
│ ├── files
│ │ ├── artifact-verify-key.pem
│ │ └── private.key
│ └── mender_%.bbappend
└── state-scripts
├── files
│ ├── ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh
│ └── LICENSE
└── state-scripts_1.0.bb
```
The recipe state-scripts\_1.0.bb is not adding the ArtifactCommit\_Enter scripts in the mender artifact after the generation. The script is copied from the examples you provide in the demo layer:
```
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
SRC_URI = "file://ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh;subdir=${PN}-${PV} \
file://LICENSE;subdir=${PN}-${PV} \
"
LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e3fc50a88d0a364313df4b21ef20c29e"
inherit mender-state-scripts
do_compile() {
install -m 755 ${DEV}../scripts/* ${MENDER_STATE_SCRIPTS_DIR}
cp ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh ${MENDER_STATE_SCRIPTS_DIR}/ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh
}
```
When I read the content of the artifact, the script is not appearing:
```
Mender artifact:
Name: release-1.0.0
Format: mender
Version: 3
Signature: no signature
Compatible devices: '[up-squared]'
Provides group:
Depends on one of artifact(s): []
Depends on one of group(s): []
State scripts:
Updates:
0:
Type: rootfs-image
```
All other recipes work normally. Does someone have an idea ? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083/2 "2020-06-22T08:07:10Z")
Hi @fnx_qt
When inheriting the `mender-state-scripts`, you don’t necessarily have to create your own install function.
See [this](https://docs.mender.io/2.3/artifacts/yocto-project/variables#mender_state_scripts_dir).
This means that you should only have to list the directory where your scripts are located, and the `mender-state-scripts` class will install them for you.
See [mender-state-scripts.bbclass](https://github.com/mendersoftware/meta-mender/blob/master/meta-mender-core/classes/mender-state-scripts.bbclass) For how this is done 🙂
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### Author:  [@fnx\_qt](https://hub.mender.io/u/fnx_qt)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083/3 "2020-06-22T10:58:14Z")
Hi,
Thank you but I don’t understand what I need to do. I tried removing all instructions and just “listing” the files:
```
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
SRC_URI = "file://ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh;subdir=${PN}-${PV} \
file://LICENSE;subdir=${PN}-${PV} \
"
LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e3fc50a88d0a364313df4b21ef20c29e"
inherit mender-state-scripts
```
It didn’t work. After that I tried adding the following line, as shown in the meta-mender-demo layer:
```
do_compile() {
cp ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh ${MENDER_STATE_SCRIPTS_DIR}/ArtifactCommit_Enter_00.sh
}
```
However both methods don’t work. I read the mender-state-scripts.bbclass but it doesn’t help. I also tried creating a mender-state-scripts folder and put my script in it but it didn’t work either.
Do you have an idea on what I’m doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083/4 "2020-06-22T12:00:30Z")
Ahh, I think I got it. The recipe for installing the scripts is actually never run.
Add:
```auto
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " state-scripts"
```
preferably to your `local.conf` for now.
[See doc](https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-IMAGE_INSTALL)
To make sure that the recipe actually gets executed 🙂
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### Author:  [@fnx\_qt](https://hub.mender.io/u/fnx_qt)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/state-scripts-not-integrating-with-yocto/2083/5 "2020-06-22T12:16:33Z")
That was it, thank you!