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+{
+  "name": "riak",
+  "description": "Installs and configures Riak distributed data store",
+  "long_description": "",
+  "maintainer": "Basho Technologies, Inc.",
+  "maintainer_email": "riak@basho.com",
+  "license": "Apache 2.0",
+  "platforms": {
+    "ubuntu": ">= 0.0.0",
+    "debian": ">= 0.0.0",
+    "centos": ">= 0.0.0",
+    "redhat": ">= 0.0.0",
+    "fedora": ">= 0.0.0"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+  },
+  "recommendations": {
+  },
+  "suggestions": {
+  },
+  "conflicting": {
+  },
+  "providing": {
+  },
+  "replacing": {
+  },
+  "attributes": {
+  },
+  "groupings": {
+  },
+  "recipes": {
+    "riak": "Installs Riak"
+  },
+  "version": "1.2.1"
+}
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