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+DIST loclone-0.1.0.tar.gz 98887 BLAKE2B 2acb0bac1126abe84d570414b6f33afdce3a4fc4a1ebdb21ab4d1b72b3bd8022321cc17dc58694b6c689bf8574f746901cf39208d071525881f97f17c2a79141 SHA512 b51ec04224634d617339d9a65f1a45aab48fe6026df821016225b37b5d57f7e1f5686f2e5d51ee7c2504211a9d7a32dbc4cda83930d28db053fd1bf6b905fb35
diff --git a/sys-apps/loclone/loclone-0.1.0.ebuild b/sys-apps/loclone/loclone-0.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="A tool for creating CoW snapshots on XFS"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/hugglesfox/loclone"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/hugglesfox/loclone/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
diff --git a/sys-apps/loclone/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/loclone/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<upstream><remote-id type="github">hugglesfox/loclone</remote-id></upstream>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>hayley@foxes.systems</email>
+		<name>Hayley Hughes</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+A tool to clone a disk image.
+
+Main features
+
+	- Utilises FICLONE to create a copy-on-write clone of the image
+	- Uses FIFREEZE if the image is mounted in order to ensure consistency of the image
+
+For further details see loclone(1).
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>