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+SUMMARY = "genimage - The image creation tool"
+DESCRIPTION = "Genimage is a tool for generating filesystem and disk/flash images \
+from a root filesystem tree or existing filesystem images."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/pengutronix/genimage"
+
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+
+DEPENDS = "libconfuse"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/genimage-${PV}.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ebc3f886c4d80064dd6c6d5e3c2e98e5a670078264108ce2f89ada8a2e13fedd"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-largefile"
+
+inherit pkgconfig autotools gettext github-releases
+
+GITHUB_BASE_URI = "https://github.com/pengutronix/genimage/releases"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/v?(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)*)"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"