diff --git a/ctypes/.footprint b/ctypes/.footprint
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--- a/ctypes/.footprint
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes_test.so
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes-1.0.1-py2.4.egg-info/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes-1.0.1-py2.4.egg-info/PKG-INFO
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes-1.0.1-py2.4.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
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--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes-1.0.1-py2.4.egg-info/top_level.txt
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/__init__.py
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/__init__.pyc
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/_endian.py
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/_endian.pyc
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/macholib/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/macholib/__init__.py
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/macholib/__init__.pyc
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py
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diff --git a/ctypes/.md5sum b/ctypes/.md5sum
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-7bf049d7965223d5e1e7fc6f58bb9961  ctypes-1.0.1.patch
-bdc75102ebc533e1d708296a346cfee4  ctypes-1.0.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/ctypes/Pkgfile b/ctypes/Pkgfile
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-# Description: Python library to create and manipulate C data types.
-# URL: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
-# Maintainer: Danny Rawlins, romster at shortcircuit dot net dot au
-# Packager: Danny Rawlins, romster at shortcircuit dot net dot au
-# Depends on: python
-
-name=ctypes
-version=1.0.1
-release=1
-source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ctypes/ctypes-$version.tar.gz \
-	ctypes-$version.patch)
-
-build() {
-	cd ctypes-$version
-	patch -p1 -i $SRC/ctypes-$version.patch
-	python setup.py install --root=$PKG
-	rm -fr $PKG/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes/test
-}
-
diff --git a/ctypes/ctypes-1.0.1.patch b/ctypes/ctypes-1.0.1.patch
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-diff -Nru ctypes-1.0.1.orig/setup.py ctypes-1.0.1/setup.py
---- ctypes-1.0.1.orig/setup.py	2007-03-16 20:45:46.000000000 +1000
-+++ ctypes-1.0.1/setup.py	2007-03-16 20:58:08.000000000 +1000
-@@ -15,15 +15,16 @@
- 
- ################################################################
- 
--##from ez_setup import use_setuptools
--##use_setuptools()
--
- import os, sys
- 
- if sys.version_info < (2, 3):
-     raise Exception, "ctypes %s requires Python 2.3 or better" % __version__
- 
--from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
-+try:
-+    from setuptools import setup, Extension, Command
-+except ImportError:
-+    from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
-+
- import distutils.core
- from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError
- from distutils.command import build_py, build_ext, clean