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+# Template file for 'stress'
+pkgname=stress
+version=1.0.4
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="Deliberately simple workload generator for POSIX systems"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/"
+distfiles="http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=057e4fc2a7706411e1014bf172e4f94b63a12f18412378fca8684ca92408825b