diff --git a/community/couchdb/PKGBUILD b/community/couchdb/PKGBUILD
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-# Maintainer: Bruno Pagani <archange@archlinux.org>
-# Contributor: Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>
-# Contributor: Vitaliy Berdinskikh ur6lad[at]i.ua
-# Contributor: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com>
-
-# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
-#  - patch and rebuild rebar on AArch64
-
-pkgname=couchdb
-pkgver=2.2.0
-pkgrel=3
-pkgdesc="A document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JSON"
-arch=('x86_64')
-url="https://couchdb.apache.org"
-license=('APACHE')
-depends=('icu' 'js185' 'zlib')
-makedepends=('erlang-nox-20')
-install=${pkgname}.install
-backup=('etc/couchdb/local.ini'
-        'etc/couchdb/vm.args')
-source=("https://www-eu.apache.org/dist/couchdb/source/${pkgver}/apache-couchdb-${pkgver}.tar.gz"{,.asc}
-        "https://github.com/rebar/rebar/commit/f9b850c428dae6cf6673ff076d863d5b6c343569.patch"
-        'couchdb.service'
-        'couchdb.sysusers'
-        'couchdb.tmpfiles'
-        'datadirs.ini')
-sha256sums=('0e3ceb8aab73af8e54a2e2c949f362495b1c938455a15e9a4e294901c6c67985'
-            'SKIP'
-            'f9465e279b40adde6db8008c4c0366a700a04602bfa7f189c9ad6eac13754efa'
-            'e2976dbdd2fb63fe8d09bee0d9c9a97e8785533d9c323276b4030354cb6d8957'
-            '3ed1ad2a37a068ce194b03fb72eb35285d60fa7faf2d2c2bb710703d229108a8'
-            '0ce806cbc5e18e60b17be9fd2cdbd4c7f12cc84ca95b079efdede16ddb5f3efd'
-            '937ca3498aab47b3f2226d027fa8a1a95de55cbb463373099e28cb9a6c7046ac')
-validpgpkeys=('2EC788AE3F239FA13E82D215CDE711289384AE37') # Joan Touzet (CODE SIGNING KEY) <wohali@apache.org>
-
-prepare() {
-    cd apache-couchdb-${pkgver}
-    sed -i 's|$ROOTDIR/etc/vm.args|/etc/couchdb/vm.args|' rel/overlay/bin/couchdb
-
-    if [[ $CARCH == aarch64 ]]; then
-        cd src/rebar
-        patch -p1 -i "$srcdir/f9b850c428dae6cf6673ff076d863d5b6c343569.patch"
-        ./bootstrap
-        cp rebar ../../bin
-    fi
-}
-
-build() {
-    cd apache-couchdb-${pkgver}
-    ./configure
-    make release
-}
-
-package() {
-    cd apache-couchdb-${pkgver}
-    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/
-    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}"/etc/couchdb/
-
-    cp -r rel/couchdb "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/couchdb
-    mv "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/couchdb/etc/local.ini "${pkgdir}"/etc/couchdb/local.ini
-    mv "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/couchdb/etc/vm.args "${pkgdir}"/etc/couchdb/vm.args
-
-    cd "${srcdir}"
-    install -Dm644 ${pkgname}.service -t "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/systemd/system/
-    install -Dm644 ${pkgname}.tmpfiles "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/${pkgname}.conf
-    install -Dm644 ${pkgname}.sysusers "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/sysusers.d/${pkgname}.conf
-    install -Dm644 datadirs.ini -t "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/couchdb/etc/
-}
diff --git a/community/couchdb/couchdb.install b/community/couchdb/couchdb.install
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-post_upgrade() {
-    if [ $(vercmp $2 2.1.1-1) -lt 0 ] ; then
-        cat << EOF
-
-Be sure to read http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.1/whatsnew/2.1.html#upgrade-notes.
-Note that your /etc/couchdb/vm.args has been replaced by the new one if you
-never edited it, so you might actually have to change it as advised.
-
-EOF
-    fi
-}
diff --git a/community/couchdb/couchdb.service b/community/couchdb/couchdb.service
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-[Unit]
-Description=CouchDB Server
-
-[Service]
-User=couchdb
-Group=couchdb
-Type=simple
-Environment="ERL_FLAGS=-couch_ini /usr/lib/couchdb/etc/default.ini /usr/lib/couchdb/etc/datadirs.ini /etc/couchdb/local.ini"
-ExecStart=/usr/lib/couchdb/bin/couchdb
-ProtectSystem=true
-ProtectHome=true
-NoNewPrivileges=true
-PrivateTmp=true
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/community/couchdb/couchdb.sysusers b/community/couchdb/couchdb.sysusers
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-u couchdb - "CouchDB daemon" /var/lib/couchdb
diff --git a/community/couchdb/couchdb.tmpfiles b/community/couchdb/couchdb.tmpfiles
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-d /var/lib/couchdb 0755 couchdb couchdb
-x /var/lib/couchdb
-z /etc/couchdb/local.ini - couchdb couchdb
diff --git a/community/couchdb/datadirs.ini b/community/couchdb/datadirs.ini
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-[couchdb]
-database_dir = /var/lib/couchdb
-view_index_dir = /var/lib/couchdb