diff --git a/srcpkgs/rtkit/depends b/srcpkgs/rtkit/depends
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+abi_depends=">=0.9"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rtkit/template b/srcpkgs/rtkit/template
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+# Template file for 'rtkit'
+pkgname=rtkit
+version=0.9
+distfiles="http://0pointer.de/public/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+short_desc="Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=5236ab2db3a1e6d34d0fcb11572b769a8989ba47b3cb282659f9315ed9143921
+long_desc="
+ RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of
+ user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request.
+ It is intended to be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling
+ to be used by normal user processes."
+
+system_accounts="rtkit"
+rtkit_homedir="/proc"
+
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run libcap
+Add_dependency run dbus-libs
+Add_dependency build dbus-devel
+Add_dependency build pkg-config
+Add_dependency build dbus-devel
+
+post_install()
+{
+	# DBus configuration
+	install -d ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces
+	./rtkit-daemon --introspect > \
+		${DESTDIR}/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.xml
+}