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+# Maintainer: Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Bartłomiej Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@archlinux.org>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - remove dependency on numactl
+
+pkgname=xtrabackup
+pkgver=8.0.4
+_boost_ver=1.67.0
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc='Non-blocking backup tool for MySQL'
+arch=('x86_64')
+url='https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-xtrabackup'
+license=('GPL')
+depends=('libaio' 'libev' 'libgcrypt' 'curl' 'perl-dbd-mysql')
+makedepends=('cmake' 'python-sphinx' 'zlib' 'vim' 'libedit' 'libevent' 'protobuf' 're2')
+optdepends=('qpress: for compressed backups')
+source=(https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-$pkgver/source/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-$pkgver.tar.gz
+        http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/${_boost_ver}/boost_${_boost_ver//./_}.tar.gz)
+sha256sums=('0a530146ef7abbfef65231848da0c077e77b0a2512ce4aeddc5e38fb645b37bd'
+            '8aa4e330c870ef50a896634c931adf468b21f8a69b77007e45c444151229f665')
+build() {
+  cd percona-xtrabackup-$pkgver
+  cmake -DBUILD_CONFIG=xtrabackup_release \
+        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+        -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/var/lib/mysql \
+        -DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
+        -DWITH_LIBEVENT=system \
+        -DWITH_SSL=system \
+        -DWITH_EDITLINE=system \
+        -DWITH_LZ4=system \
+        -DWITH_LZMA=bundled \
+        -DWITH_PROTOBUF=system \
+        -DWITH_RE2=system \
+        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+        -DINSTALL_PLUGINDIR="/usr/lib/xtrabackup/plugin" \
+        -DINSTALL_MANDIR="/usr/share/man" \
+        -DINSTALL_STATIC_LIBRARIES=OFF \
+        -DWITH_BOOST="../boost_${_boost_ver//./_}"
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd percona-xtrabackup-$pkgver
+  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+
+  cd  "$pkgdir"
+  rm -rf usr/xtrabackup-test usr/lib/xtrabackup/plugin/debug
+}