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+# Template file for 's3cmd'
+pkgname=s3cmd
+_distver=1.5.0-rc1
+version="${_distver//-/}"
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${_distver}"
+revision=1
+noarch=yes
+build_style=python-module
+pycompile_module="S3"
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools"
+depends="python-dateutil"
+short_desc="Command line tool for Amazon S3"
+maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://s3tools.org/s3cmd"
+update_version="${_distver//-/.}"
+update_pattern='archive/v?\K[\d.]+(-rc\d)?(?=\.tar\.gz)'
+distfiles="https://github.com/s3tools/${pkgname}/archive/v${_distver}.tar.gz"
+checksum=650dc3e0ee0ce7500183973dd66c121be3c4dde2570ad96b9d834ba6dca77a8c
+
+pre_install() {
+	export S3CMD_INSTPATH_DOC="usr/share/doc"
+}