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+SUMMARY = "Sample entity configuration for phosphor-host-ipmid"
+PR = "r1"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${PHOSPHORBASE}/COPYING.apache-2.0;md5=34400b68072d710fecd0a2940a0d1658"
+
+inherit native
+inherit phosphor-ipmi-host
+
+PROVIDES += "virtual/phosphor-ipmi-entity-config"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://entity.yaml"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}"
+
+do_install() {
+        # This recipe is supposed to create an output yaml file with
+        # a sample output file.
+
+        DEST=${D}${sensor_datadir}
+        install -d ${DEST}
+        install entity.yaml ${DEST}/entity.yaml
+}