diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/efunctions/efunctions-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/efunctions/efunctions-9999.ebuild
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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Brandon Philips. All rights reserved.
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header:$
+#
+
+EAPI=2
+CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="coreos/efunctions"
+CROS_WORKON_LOCALNAME="efunctions"
+inherit toolchain-funcs cros-workon
+
+DESCRIPTION="standalone replacement for functions.sh"
+HOMEPAGE="https://bitbucket.org/coreos/efunctions"
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+src_install() {
+	into "/usr/lib/${PN}"
+	dodir "${S}/efunctions"
+	doins "functions.sh"
+	dosym /usr/lib/${PN}/functions.sh /etc/init.d/functions.sh
+}