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+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "ctdb-2.5.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://samba.org/ftp/ctdb/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "09fb29ngxnh1crsqchykg23bl6s4fifvxwq4gwg1y742mmnjp9fy";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "The trivial database";
+    longDescription =
+      '' TDB is a Trivial Database. In concept, it is very much like GDBM,
+         and BSD's DB except that it allows multiple simultaneous writers and
+         uses locking internally to keep writers from trampling on each
+         other.  TDB is also extremely small.
+      '';
+    homepage = http://tdb.samba.org/;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ wkennington ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}