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+SUMMARY = "An image that includes the error recipe and will therefore fail"
+DESCRIPTION = "This generates an error. Not currently used by oe-selftest"
+
+IMAGE_INSTALL = "error"
+
+IMAGE_LINGUAS = " "
+
+inherit core-image