diff --git a/dev-libs/libvmdk/Manifest b/dev-libs/libvmdk/Manifest
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+DIST libvmdk-20181227_alpha.tar.gz 1541826 BLAKE2B d235f15d5d269d45f2a34ba676e12340a8caa732cf33c683971247c61914b965f9088e197733a406e70bf7cbde3fa1475ebf38450ae251746d1b4e209298cfcf SHA512 e1953178b700bbf93774c190d234f88e37bd4bca01522fd3240e8326622d50c5bc5efe518ccec4d846909b9a8f521e50fe1c1f58ccc019f0c4e180c4b200b3ca
diff --git a/dev-libs/libvmdk/libvmdk-20181227_alpha.ebuild b/dev-libs/libvmdk/libvmdk-20181227_alpha.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{5,6,7} )
+
+inherit autotools python-single-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library and tools to access the VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) format"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk"
+
+MY_PV="${PV%_alpha}"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/releases/download/${MY_PV}/libvmdk-alpha-${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~x86"
+LICENSE="LGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+
+IUSE="debug +fuse unicode python nls static static-libs"
+REQUIRED_USE="static? ( static-libs )"
+
+RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	fuse? ( sys-fs/fuse:0=[static-libs?] )
+	sys-libs/zlib"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-${MY_PV}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	eautoreconf
+	eapply_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(usex debug "--enable-debug-output --enable-verbose-output") \
+		$(use_with fuse libfuse) \
+		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type) \
+		$(use_enable static static-executables) \
+		$(use_enable static-libs static) \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		$(use_enable python)
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libvmdk/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libvmdk/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>email@linxon.ru</email>
+		<name>Yury Martynov</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="fuse">Enable fuse support</flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>