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September 2015

Modifying the BusyBox config in OpenEmbedded

Recently, I needed to enable the eject command in BusyBox for an OpenEmbedded (Yocto) based project.  Below is a way to do this in a fairly painless way:

  1. bitbake -c menuconfig busybox (enable the eject command in the config and save)
  2. bitbake -c diffconfig busybox (this generates a config fragment, note the fragment file location)
  3. recipetool appendsrcfile -w [path to layer] busybox [path to fragment generated in step #2]

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