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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

by Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
162 pages
4h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Common use cases

Nowadays, projects usually have a set of layers to provide the required features. We certainly need to make changes on top of them to adapt them to our specific needs. They may be cosmetic or substantive changes, but the way to make them is the same.

To make changes to a preexisting recipe, we need to create a .bbappend file in our project layer. The name of the file is the same as the original recipe, along with the append suffix. For example, if the original recipe was named <original-layer>/recipes-core/app/app_1.0.bb, our respective .bbappend will be <layer>/recipes-core/app/app_1.0.bbappend.

The .bbappend file can be seen as a piece of text that is appended at the end of the original recipe. It empowers us with an extremely ...

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