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+SUMMARY = "Standard GNU compressor"
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU \
+project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+# change to GPLv3+ in 2007/07. Previous GPLv2 version is 1.3.12
+LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
+                    file://gzip.h;beginline=8;endline=20;md5=6e47caaa630e0c8bf9f1bc8d94a8ed0e"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gzip/${BP}.tar.gz"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+do_install_append () {
+        # Rename and move files into /bin (FHS), which is typical place for gzip
+        install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
+        mv ${D}${bindir}/gunzip ${D}${base_bindir}/gunzip
+        mv ${D}${bindir}/gzip ${D}${base_bindir}/gzip
+        mv ${D}${bindir}/zcat ${D}${base_bindir}/zcat
+}
+
+inherit update-alternatives
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "gunzip gzip zcat"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gunzip] = "${base_bindir}/gunzip"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gzip] = "${base_bindir}/gzip"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[zcat] = "${base_bindir}/zcat"