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+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Disktype(MakefilePackage):
+    """A fork of the disktype disk and disk image format detection tool."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/kamwoods/disktype"
+    url      = "https://github.com/kamwoods/disktype/archive/9.2.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('9.2.1', sha256='fb274d6ce6b69c0d36eb23fcc9f01db3c32c3996b404900d46bb743ce4fa8154')
+
+    build_directory = 'src'
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        mkdir(prefix.bin)
+        with working_dir(self.build_directory):
+            install('disktype', prefix.bin)