What it this about? I know, I know strange title for a blog post. When dealing with YOCTO you mostly spend time at a single recipe while developing (at least I do), so everything is right at one place - not a big deal. But an image consists of multiple of those packages and they should all play well together. Sometimes there are "global" component (like web server) which are used by many components at the same time. And here comes the issue. I had the pleasure of putting a nginx based web server together which was configured by a bunch of configuration files, which were produced by a lot of different packages. In theory this works quite well, as you simply just adjust where it's needed, everything else should be done by bitbake - well in theory... The issue was that in a single configuration fragment a typo existed, which didn't get noticed until the whole construction was started on the target device - I personally think this is way too late. There has t...