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-opam-version: "1.2"
-maintainer: "Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert@ocamlpro.com>"
-authors: ["Thomas Gazagnaire" "Louis Gesbert" "Anil Madhavapeddy" "Fabrice Le Fessant"]
-name: "opam-bin"
-version: "1.2.0+dev"
-homepage: "https://opam.ocaml.org"
-doc: "http://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Basic_Usage.html"
-bug-reports: "https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues"
-dev-repo: "git://github.com/ocaml/opam"
-license: "LGPL-3.0 with OCaml linking exception"
-build: [
-  ["./configure"]
-  [make "opam"]
-  ["sh" "-c" "echo %{version}% > \"%{root}%/opam.version\""]
-  ["install" "--backup" "-m" "755" "src/opam" "%{root}%/opam"]
-]
-remove: ["rm" "-f" "%{root}%/opam" "%{root}%/opam.version"]
-depends: [
-  "ocamlfind"
-  "ocamlgraph"
-  "cmdliner"
-  "cudf"
-  "dose" {>= "3.2.2+opam"}
-  "re" {>= "1.2.0"}
-]
-# Restrict self-upgrade to "official" versions, just in case
-available: [
-  switch = "3.12.1" |
-  switch = "4.00.0" |
-  switch = "4.00.1" |
-  switch = "4.01.0" |
-  switch = "4.02.0" |
-  (switch = "system" & ocaml-version >= "3.12.1" & ocaml-version <= "4.02.0")
-]
-post-messages: [
-  "
-A new version of OPAM has been installed to %{root}%, and will be used
-by default. You can bypass it using the `--no-self-upgrade' flag
-" {success}
-]