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+SUMMARY = "Linux Containers tools"
+DESCRIPTION = "Linux containers are a light weight isolation system for Linux."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://lxc.sourceforge.net"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+
+PV = "0.8.0-rc2"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "perl perl-modules"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxc/lxc"
+SRCREV = "ed55bf5203aca88809d979b289d6b2280a18e79c"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-doc --disable-rpath"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/lxc/.debug"