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+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="CPIO implementation from the GNU project"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.12
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=70998c5816ace8407c8b101c9ba1ffd3ebbecba1f5031046893307580ec1296e
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="tar"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-rmt=$TERMUX_PREFIX/libexec/rmt"
+