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+Customizing the generated target filesystem
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+
+There are a few ways to customize the resulting target filesystem:
+
+* Customize the target filesystem directly and rebuild the image.  The
+  target filesystem is available under +output/target/+.  You can
+  simply make your changes here and run make afterwards - this will
+  rebuild the target filesystem image. This method allows you to do
+  anything to the target filesystem, but if you decide to completely
+  rebuild your toolchain and tools, these changes will be lost.
+
+* Create your own 'target skeleton'. You can start with the default
+  skeleton available under +fs/skeleton+ and then customize it to suit
+  your needs. The +BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM+ and
+  +BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM_PATH+ will allow you to specify the
+  location of your custom skeleton. At build time, the contents of the
+  skeleton are copied to output/target before any package
+  installation.
+
+* In the Buildroot configuration, you can specify the path to a
+  post-build script, that gets called 'after' Buildroot builds all the
+  selected software, but 'before' the rootfs packages are
+  assembled. The destination root filesystem folder is given as the
+  first argument to this script, and this script can then be used to
+  copy programs, static data or any other needed file to your target
+  filesystem. You should, however, use this feature with care.
+  Whenever you find that a certain package generates wrong or unneeded
+  files, you should fix that package rather than work around it with a
+  post-build cleanup script.
+
+* A special package, 'customize', stored in +package/customize+ can be
+  used. You can put all the files that you want to see in the final
+  target root filesystem in +package/customize/source+, and then
+  enable this special package in the configuration system.
+