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+SUMMARY = "Phosphor ipmi tool for injecting ipmi commands"
+DESCRIPTION = "IPMI Tool with dbus capabilities"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/openbmc/ipmitool"
+PR = "r1"
+
+
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "virtual/obmc-phosphor-host-ipmi-hw"
+
+inherit obmc-phosphor-license
+
+DEPENDS += "systemd    \
+		 	host-ipmid \
+		 	"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libsystemd	\
+                   libcrypto	\
+                   "
+
+
+SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/ipmitool"
+
+SRCREV = "e9b9c1a9677a3de19726d036cfb07d8d61bbccd8"
+
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+
+do_compile() {
+	${S}/bootstrap --enable-intf-dbus
+	${S}/configure --host x86_64
+	make
+}
+
+do_install() {  
+	install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sbindir}
+	install -m 0755 ${S}/src/ipmitool ${D}${sbindir}
+}