diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 534ebf2..c5ffca9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  12 Mar 2008; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> genkernel.conf:
+  Change BUSYBOX_VER to VERSION_BUSYBOX for genkernel-9999 ebuild.
+
   11 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_compile.sh:
   Remove the quotes when trying to expand a glob
 
diff --git a/genkernel.conf b/genkernel.conf
index e9e4bf2..c7b6cd1 100755
--- a/genkernel.conf
+++ b/genkernel.conf
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ DEFAULT_KERNEL_SOURCE="/usr/src/linux"
 # Configuration file for busybox
 BUSYBOX_CONFIG="${GK_SHARE}/%%ARCH%%/busy-config"
 
-BUSYBOX_VER="1.7.4"
+BUSYBOX_VER="VERSION_BUSYBOX"
 BUSYBOX_SRCTAR="${GK_SHARE}/pkg/busybox-${BUSYBOX_VER}.tar.bz2"
 BUSYBOX_DIR="busybox-${BUSYBOX_VER}"
 BUSYBOX_BINCACHE="%%CACHE%%/busybox-${BUSYBOX_VER}-%%ARCH%%.tar.bz2"