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+# Override the version of setuptools in openembedded-core to work around
+# https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3118 . This doesn't use the
+# most recent version of setuptools because it in turn isn't quite
+# compatible with the way the overrided recipe installs it.
+
+require recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools.inc
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e2c6c3d64b38efe2e81bcd502cf54dcc"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4334fc63121aafb1cc98fd5ae5dd47ea8ad4a38ad638b47af03a686deb14ef5b"
+SRC_URI_remove_class-native = " file://0001-conditionally-do-not-fetch-code-by-easy_install.patch"
+inherit setuptools3
+
+
+do_install_append() {
+    mv ${D}${bindir}/easy_install ${D}${bindir}/easy3_install
+}