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+SUMMARY = "Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & SMAIL_GPL"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://debian/copyright;md5=9b912cd0cc654134c0ef3424a0705b94"
+
+SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/d/${BPN}/${BPN}_${PV}.tar.xz"
+# the package is taken from snapshots.debian.org; that source is static and goes stale
+# so we check the latest upstream from a directory that does get updated
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/d/${BPN}/"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bb5ce6290696b0d623377521ed217f484aa98f7346c5f7c48f9ae3e1acfb7151"
+
+inherit autotools update-alternatives
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    sed -i -e 's:tempfile.1 which.1:which.1:g' ${S}/Makefile.am
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+    if [ "${base_bindir}" != "${bindir}" ]; then
+        # Debian places some utils into ${base_bindir} as does busybox
+        install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
+        for app in run-parts tempfile; do
+            mv ${D}${bindir}/$app ${D}${base_bindir}/$app
+        done
+    fi
+}
+
+# Note that we package the update-alternatives name.
+#
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-run-parts"
+FILES_${PN}-run-parts = "${base_bindir}/run-parts.debianutils"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-run-parts"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "30"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "add-shell installkernel remove-shell savelog tempfile which"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY_${PN}-run-parts = "60"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-run-parts = "run-parts"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "which.1"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[which.1] = "${mandir}/man1/which.1"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[add-shell] = "${sbindir}/add-shell"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[installkernel] = "${sbindir}/installkernel"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[remove-shell] = "${sbindir}/remove-shell"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[run-parts] = "${base_bindir}/run-parts"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[savelog] = "${bindir}/savelog"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[tempfile] = "${base_bindir}/tempfile"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[which] = "${bindir}/which"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"