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+SUMMARY = "GNU cpio is a program to manage archives of files"
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to \
+another. It handles a number of cpio formats as well as reading and writing tar files."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+DEPENDS = "texinfo-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/cpio/cpio-${PV}.tar.gz \
+    file://statdef.patch \
+    "
+
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/cpio-${PV}"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "DEFAULT_RMT_DIR=${base_sbindir}"
+
+do_install () {
+    autotools_do_install
+    install -d ${D}${base_bindir}/
+    mv "${D}${bindir}/cpio" "${D}${base_bindir}/cpio"
+    rmdir ${D}${bindir}/
+}
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rmt"
+
+FILES_${PN}-rmt = "${base_sbindir}/rmt*"
+
+inherit update-alternatives
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "cpio"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-rmt = "rmt"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[cpio] = "${base_bindir}/cpio"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[rmt] = "50"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[rmt] = "${base_sbindir}/rmt"