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+SUMMARY = "The canonical example of init scripts"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYRIGHT;md5=349c872e0066155e1818b786938876a4"
+
+SRC_URI = "file://skeleton \
+	   file://skeleton_test.c \
+	   file://COPYRIGHT \
+	   "
+
+do_compile () {
+	${CC} ${WORKDIR}/skeleton_test.c -o ${WORKDIR}/skeleton-test
+}
+
+do_install () {
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
+	cat ${WORKDIR}/skeleton | \
+	  sed -e 's,/etc,${sysconfdir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/usr/sbin,${sbindir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/var,${localstatedir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/usr/bin,${bindir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/usr,${prefix},g' > ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/skeleton
+	chmod a+x ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/skeleton
+
+	install -d ${D}${sbindir}
+	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/skeleton-test ${D}${sbindir}/
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initscripts"
+
+CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/init.d/skeleton"