diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/leatherman-1.3.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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-# leatherman
-
-The leatherman package
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/leatherman.spec b/leatherman.spec
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+%if 0%{?epel}
+%global boost_version 157
+%else
+# CentOS SIGs have newer //-installable Boost
+%global boost_version 159
+%endif
+
+Name:           leatherman
+Version:        1.3.0
+Release:        3%{?dist}
+Summary:        A collection of C++ and CMake utility libraries
+
+# leatherman is ASL 2.0
+# bundled rapidjson is MIT
+
+License:        ASL 2.0 and MIT
+URL:            https://github.com/puppetlabs/leatherman
+Source0:        https://github.com/puppetlabs/%{name}/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+# This unbundles boost-nowide and the boost libraries do not need
+# to have the path to nowide added as it's included already
+Patch0:         shared_nowide.patch
+
+%if 0%{?fedora}
+BuildRequires:  boost-devel
+BuildRequires:  cmake
+%else
+# this isn't in EPEL yet ... but it will be soon
+BuildRequires:  boost%{?boost_version}-devel
+BuildRequires:  cmake3
+%endif
+#BuildRequires:  catch-devel
+BuildRequires:  curl-devel
+BuildRequires:  gettext
+BuildRequires:  boost-nowide-devel
+
+%description
+A collection of C++ and CMake utility libraries
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        Development files for %{name}
+# Building againse leatherman requires the boost nowide headers present
+Requires:       boost-nowide-devel
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description    devel
+The %{name}-devel package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1
+# unbundle nowide
+rm -rf vendor/nowide
+# leatherman isn't compatible with rapidjson 1.1.0 yet so that has to be left bundled for now
+# https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/LTH-130
+# catch is only used in testing so can be ignored
+
+%build
+%if 0%{?fedora}
+  %cmake \
+%else
+  %cmake3 -DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR=/usr/include/boost%{?boost_version} \
+          -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=%{_libdir}/boost%{?boost_version} \
+%endif
+          -DLEATHERMAN_SHARED=ON \
+	  -DLEATHERMAN_DEBUG=ON \
+          -DLEATHERMAN_USE_CATCH=OFF \
+          -DLEATHERMAN_ENABLE_TESTING=OFF
+
+%__make
+
+%install
+%make_install
+%if !0%{?fedora}
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/cmake3
+mv %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/cmake/%{name} %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/cmake3/%{name}
+%endif
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+%find_lang %{name}_logging
+%find_lang %{name}_locale
+
+
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+
+%files -f %{name}_logging.lang  -f %{name}_locale.lang
+%license LICENSE
+%{_libdir}/%{name}*.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/%{name}
+%{_libdir}/%{name}*.so
+%if 0%{?fedora}
+%{_libdir}/cmake/%{name}
+%else
+%{_libdir}/cmake3/%{name}
+%endif
+
+
+%changelog
+* Sun Oct 29 2017 Haïkel Guémar <hguemar@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-3
+- Merge with James spec + keep compatibility with CentOS SIGs
+
+* Thu Oct 19 2017 James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> - 1.3.0-2
+- rebuilt
+
+* Wed Oct 04 2017 James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> - 1.3.0-1
+- Upstream update
+- unbundle nowide
+
+* Thu Aug 31 2017 James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> - 1.2.0-1
+- Upstream update
+
+* Sat Feb  4 2017 Haïkel Guémar <hguemar@fedoraproject.org> - 0.10.2-1
+- Upstream 0.10.2
+- Add Fedora support
+
+* Thu Oct 27 2016 Haïkel Guémar <hguemar@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.2-1
+- Initial package on EL7
+
diff --git a/shared_nowide.patch b/shared_nowide.patch
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+++ b/shared_nowide.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/nowide/CMakeLists.txt b/nowide/CMakeLists.txt
+index ff9dba6..5d1b9ce 100644
+--- a/nowide/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/nowide/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
+ find_package(Boost 1.54 REQUIRED)
+ 
+-add_leatherman_includes(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS} "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../vendor/nowide/include")
+-add_leatherman_headers(../vendor/nowide/include/boost)
+ if(WIN32)
+     add_leatherman_library(../vendor/nowide/src/iostream.cpp)
+ endif()
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SHA512 (leatherman-1.3.0.tar.gz) = 5e06be7add652f69b0d4a8d778e33dfb68183c4d598217cc6542d2431f7984f0af989c27bd69e89b77ab03d6dd2adab9d70f68cd87dae20d8e24ae05923fbe9b