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+# Common code for applications providing a D-Bus service.
+
+# Class users should define DBUS_SERVICES prior to including.
+
+python() {
+        services = d.getVar('DBUS_SERVICES', True).split()
+        uris = " ".join( [ 'file://' + s + '.conf' for s in services ] )
+        d.appendVar('SRC_URI', uris)
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+        # install the service configuration files
+        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d
+        for s in ${DBUS_SERVICES}; do
+                install ${WORKDIR}/$s.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/$s.conf
+        done
+}