diff --git a/dev-python/lmdb/Manifest b/dev-python/lmdb/Manifest
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+DIST lmdb-0.92.tar.gz 155720 SHA256 3d73238ab0e1f9d8b8ea4916b66f9e91574ec64f844f91b6e9374e894036dc06 SHA512 5177abe0c441fb9067ad84de0cafda960113042404507eaf36194efe614fbc9fda37668b9d8a07d4a7f674b0c1a267194ddfb241834a3b1db0d8026f53841cf2 WHIRLPOOL eeddff397808f18e76dd68a45f68b946d11233ccfbf0318587e5c5b9f109f96d3821b584f55715fc9be380cfc33288088f65453fbdab17cc20852a81ebfbe576
diff --git a/dev-python/lmdb/lmdb-0.92.ebuild b/dev-python/lmdb/lmdb-0.92.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python bindings for the Lightning Database"
+HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/dw/py-lmdb/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="OPENLDAP"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="dev-db/lmdb:="
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+python_compile() {
+	LMDB_FORCE_SYSTEM=1 distutils-r1_python_compile
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/lmdb/metadata.xml b/dev-python/lmdb/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="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">lmdb</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">dw/py-lmdb</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>