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+# Template file for 'thin-provisioning-tools'
+pkgname=thin-provisioning-tools
+version=0.4.1
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config"
+makedepends="boost-devel expat-devel libaio-devel"
+short_desc="A suite of tools for manipulating the metadata of the dm-thin device-mapper target"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-3"
+homepage="https://github.com/jthornber/${pkgname}"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=59c8a787df8d4828bf9ca1b6310584f2b7723068901e20aa609015ce85df1d46
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+do_install() {
+	make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} BINDIR=${DESTDIR}/usr/bin MANDIR=/usr/share/man install 
+}