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-Gearman-1.09.tar.gz
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+2014-10-18: Orphaned and not available in the repo
+
diff --git a/perl-Gearman.spec b/perl-Gearman.spec
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-Name:           perl-Gearman
-Version:        1.09
-Release:        4%{?dist}
-Summary:        Distributed job system
-License:        GPL+ or Artistic
-Group:          Development/Libraries
-URL:            http://danga.com/gearman/
-Source0:        http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/B/BR/BRADFITZ/Gearman-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-BuildArch:      noarch
-
-BuildRequires:  perl(Test::More)
-BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
-BuildRequires:  perl(String::CRC32)
-
-Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
-
-%description
-Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines,
-dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work,
-to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls,
-or to call functions between languages.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n Gearman-%{version}
-
-# Filter double proved for Gearman::Client:
-cat << \EOF > %{name}-prov
-#!/bin/sh
-%{__perl_provides} $* |\
-  sed -e '/^perl(Gearman::Client)$/d'
-EOF
-
-%define __perl_provides %{_builddir}/Gearman-%{version}/%{name}-prov
-chmod +x %{__perl_provides}
-
-
-%build
-%{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-make pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f {} \;
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null \;
-
-%{_fixperms} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
-
-%check
-make test
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc CHANGES HACKING TODO
-%{perl_vendorlib}/*
-%{_mandir}/man3/*
-
-%changelog
-* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.09-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.09-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb  7 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.09-2
-- rebuild for new per
-
-* Sat Jun 30 2007 Ruben Kerkhof <ruben@rubenkerkhof.com> 1.09-1
-- Upstream released new version
-- New version now includes license information
-- Filter out just one of the two Provides for Gearman::Client
-* Thu Jun 28 2007 Ruben Kerkhof <ruben@rubenkerkhof.com> 1.08-2
-- Filter out double Provides for Gearman::Client
-- Change Source0 url
-* Mon May 21 2007 Ruben Kerkhof <ruben@rubenkerkhof.com> 1.08-1
-- Initial import
-
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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-97403520bed18e1a7316001742381b2c  Gearman-1.09.tar.gz