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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 Batctl(MakefilePackage):
+    """B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced control and management tool"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/open-mesh-mirror/batctl"
+    url      = "https://github.com/open-mesh-mirror/batctl/archive/v2019.5.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2019.5', sha256='ffe5857a33068ec174140c154610d76d833524d840a2fc2d1a15e16686213cad')
+    version('2019.4', sha256='a3564eb9727335352dc0cfa2f2b29474c2c837384689ac5fcb387784a56e7685')
+    version('2019.3', sha256='2bd93fa14925a8dc63a67e64266c8ccd2fa3ac44b10253d93e6f8a630350070c')
+    version('2019.2', sha256='fb656208ff7d4cd8b1b422f60c9e6d8747302a347cbf6c199d7afa9b80f80ea3')
+
+    depends_on('libnl')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        mkdirp(prefix.bin)
+        install('batctl', prefix.bin)