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+SUMMARY = "Additional utilities for the opkg package manager"
+SUMMARY_update-alternatives-opkg = "Utility for managing the alternatives system"
+SECTION = "base"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/opkg/"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
+                    file://opkg.py;beginline=1;endline=18;md5=15917491ad6bf7acc666ca5f7cc1e083"
+PROVIDES += "virtual/update-alternatives"
+
+SRCREV = "53274f087565fd45d8452c5367997ba6a682a37a"
+PV = "0.1.8+git${SRCPV}"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils"
+
+SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://tar_ignore_error.patch"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
+
+PYTHONRDEPS = "python python-shell python-io python-math python-crypt python-logging python-fcntl python-subprocess python-pickle python-compression python-textutils python-stringold"
+PYTHONRDEPS_class-native = ""
+
+PACKAGECONFIG = "python"
+PACKAGECONFIG[python] = ",,,${PYTHONRDEPS}"
+
+do_install() {
+	oe_runmake PREFIX=${prefix} DESTDIR=${D} install
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-target() {
+	sed -i ${D}${bindir}/update-alternatives -e 's,/usr/bin,${bindir},g; s,/usr/lib,${libdir},g'
+}
+
+PACKAGES =+ "update-alternatives-opkg"
+FILES_update-alternatives-opkg = "${bindir}/update-alternatives"
+RPROVIDES_update-alternatives-opkg = "update-alternatives update-alternatives-cworth"
+RREPLACES_update-alternatives-opkg = "update-alternatives-cworth"
+RCONFLICTS_update-alternatives-opkg = "update-alternatives-cworth"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"