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+SUMMARY = "Package maintenance system from Debian"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_${PV}.tar.xz"
+
+SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://0001-When-running-do_package_write_deb-we-have-trees-of-h.patch"
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib bzip2 perl ncurses"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "bzip2-replacement-native zlib-native virtual/update-alternatives-native gettext-native perl-native"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_update-alternatives} xz run-postinsts perl"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = "xz-native"
+
+inherit autotools gettext perlnative pkgconfig systemd
+
+python () {
+    if not bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', True, False, d):
+        pn = d.getVar('PN', True)
+        d.setVar('SYSTEMD_SERVICE_%s' % (pn), 'dpkg-configure.service')
+}
+
+export PERL = "${bindir}/perl"
+PERL_class-native = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native/perl"
+
+export PERL_LIBDIR = "${libdir}/perl"
+PERL_LIBDIR_class-native = "${libdir}/perl-native/perl"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "\
+		--disable-dselect \
+		--enable-start-stop-daemon \
+		--with-zlib \
+		--with-bz2 \
+		--without-liblzma \
+		--without-selinux \
+		"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " TAR=tar"
+
+do_configure () {
+    echo >> ${S}/m4/compiler.m4
+    sed -i -e 's#PERL_LIBDIR=.*$#PERL_LIBDIR="${libdir}/perl"#' ${S}/configure
+    autotools_do_configure
+}
+
+do_install_append () {
+	if [ "${PN}" = "dpkg-native" ]; then
+		# update-alternatives doesn't have an offline mode
+		rm ${D}${bindir}/update-alternatives
+		sed -i -e 's|^#!.*${bindir}/perl-native.*/perl|#!/usr/bin/env nativeperl|' ${D}${bindir}/dpkg-*
+	else
+		sed -i -e 's|^#!.*${bindir}/perl-native.*/perl|#!/usr/bin/env perl|' ${D}${bindir}/dpkg-*
+	fi
+
+	if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','sysvinit','false','true',d)};then
+		install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+		install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/dpkg-configure.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
+		sed -i -e 's,@BASE_BINDIR@,${base_bindir},g' \
+			-e 's,@SYSCONFDIR@,${sysconfdir},g' \
+			-e 's,@BINDIR@,${bindir},g' \
+			-e 's,@SYSTEMD_UNITDIR@,${systemd_unitdir},g' \
+			${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/dpkg-configure.service
+	fi
+}
+
+PROV = "virtual/update-alternatives"
+PROV_class-native = ""
+
+PROVIDES += "${PROV}"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "update-alternatives-dpkg"
+FILES_update-alternatives-dpkg = "${bindir}/update-alternatives ${localstatedir}/lib/dpkg/alternatives ${sysconfdir}/alternatives"
+RPROVIDES_update-alternatives-dpkg += "update-alternatives"
+
+PACKAGES += "${PN}-perl"
+FILES_${PN}-perl = "${libdir}/perl"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
+
+