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+################################################################################
+#
+#    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+#    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+#    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+#    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+#    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+#    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#    limitations under the License.
+#
+################################################################################
+
+#
+# Enable or disable the refresh of the bundles when installing
+# the features contained in a KAR file
+#
+noAutoRefreshBundles=true
+
+#
+# Enable or disable the automatic start of the bundles when installing
+# the features contained in a KAR file
+#
+noAutoStartBundles=false
+
+#
+# Directory where the kar are stored (when downloaded from Maven for instance)
+#
+#karStorage=${karaf.data}/kar