> I don’t know (yet) where this change happens. This rules out this option for the time being.

This is the actual problem. I have used yocto for close to a decade. This conclusion is wrong, the fix is right there. The rest of the article is superfluous.

Their solution works, and I’ve resorted to things like that before, but it is not “the most correctestest way” because, in my experience if you need to use sed in a recipe you’re way off the reservation and there is usually a “better” way.