diff --git a/app-text/yamlfmt/Manifest b/app-text/yamlfmt/Manifest
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+DIST yamlfmt-0.12.1-deps.tar.xz 128404 BLAKE2B aa976bf73fb0a8094afc0ae480881aaff58c6263a57587ea6ceb22ce67776c424a7ed5d5fae6c38293f1ec5f3821de99e4bfd74f7951b826b2bb211914944c94 SHA512 11c9c45535ace449c3784a55707699923dcc2809db4f86a8fdb72b8b99443a92498b1c329cca40771d63414a6571bd4c590df4a304d798bb4c3709fd0edf0ef4
+DIST yamlfmt-0.12.1.tar.gz 40958 BLAKE2B 3a1187c2a21716a16e6c86ab145eed424bb3eb65ab8b0525c1ad221c27d8be3221f668f0393dcdc117bd4d34c9283bcc30e72ccddf99f61e44050c61e88b3026 SHA512 ac39234977d11751802a3a8c2e2140c16e408f987d29aa4ac8e7dd329067c1cef686b0950fa4e4478aeeb214506e7d3fe498734e584abcbc4f3aa48f9f1c7504
diff --git a/app-text/yamlfmt/metadata.xml b/app-text/yamlfmt/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>zmedico@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Zac Medico</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">google/yamlfmt</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-text/yamlfmt/yamlfmt-0.12.1.ebuild b/app-text/yamlfmt/yamlfmt-0.12.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+inherit go-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="An extensible command line tool or library to format yaml files"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google/yamlfmt"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/google/yamlfmt/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/dist/${P}-deps.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE+=" BSD MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+src_compile() {
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 ego build -ldflags "-X main.version=${PV} -s -w" \
+		-o yamlfmt ./cmd/yamlfmt
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dodoc -r README.md docs
+	dobin yamlfmt
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake test
+}