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+# Template file for 'keychain'
+pkgname=keychain
+version=2.7.1
+distfiles="http://www.funtoo.org/archive/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+build_style=custom-install
+short_desc="keychain manager for ssh-agent and gpg-agent"
+maintainer="Mike Rosset <mike.rosset@gmail.com>"
+homepage="http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Keychain"
+license="GPL-2"
+checksum=1107fe3f78f6429d4861d64c5666f068f159326d22ab80a8ed0948cb25375191
+long_desc="
+ Keychain helps you to manage ssh and GPG keys in a convenient and secure manner.
+ It acts as a frontend to ssh-agent and ssh-add, but allows you to easily have 
+ one long running ssh-agent process per system, rather than the norm of one 
+ ssh-agent per login session."
+
+Add_dependency run dash
+Add_dependency build perl
+
+do_build()
+{
+	export PATH=/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/bin/:$PATH
+  	make ${makejobs}
+}
+
+do_install()
+{
+	install -Dm755 keychain ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/keychain
+	install -Dm644 keychain.1 ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1/keychain.1
+}