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+SUMMARY = "Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools"
+SECTION = "devel/python"
+LICENSE = "PSF | ZPL-2.0"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://setup.py;beginline=78;endline=78;md5=8a314270dd7a8dbca741775415f1716e"
+
+SRCNAME = "setuptools"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/${SRCNAME}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c5a7d90c1e0acf8c4ec5c2bf31bc25b5"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "214bf29933f47cf25e6faa569f710731728a07a19cae91ea64f826051f68a8cf"
+
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
+
+do_install_prepend() {
+    install -d ${D}/${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages
+}