I'm almost done getting SSL working between the BBB and hawkbit. The last piece of the puzzle is to get NTP working on the BBB (since I need valid time to ensure that the server certificate is valid). Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time understanding the proper way to add utilities or modify configurations in Deby. It's similar enough to Yocto where I tried creating bbappend recipes and failed miserably. I stumbled upon successfully adding openssl to the rfs, but don't know why it worked. Can anybody point me to a good resource that can describe the proper Deby workflow?
As an example, I want to install NTP and then modify its configuration so that it points to the hawkbit server.