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+/sheepdog-0.2.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/sheepdog.spec b/sheepdog.spec
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+Name: sheepdog
+Summary: The Sheepdog Distributed Storage System for KVM/QEMU
+Version: 0.2.3
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+License: GPLv2 and GPLv2+
+Group: System Environment/Base
+URL: http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog
+Source0: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sheepdog/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+# Runtime bits
+Requires: corosync 
+Requires(post): chkconfig
+Requires(preun): chkconfig
+Requires(preun): initscripts
+
+# Build bits
+BuildRequires: autoconf automake
+BuildRequires: corosync corosynclib corosynclib-devel
+
+BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
+
+%description
+This package contains the Sheepdog server, and command line tool which offer
+a distributed object storage system for KVM.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q 
+
+
+%build
+./autogen.sh
+%{configure} --with-initddir=%{_initrddir}
+
+make %{_smp_mflags}
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
+
+## tree fixup
+# drop static libs
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.a
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+%post
+/sbin/chkconfig --add sheepdog
+
+%preun
+if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
+    /sbin/service sheepdog stop >/dev/null 2>&1
+    /sbin/chkconfig --del sheepdog
+fi
+
+%postun
+if [ "$1" -ge "1" ] ; then
+    /sbin/service sheepdog condrestart >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+fi
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc COPYING README INSTALL
+%{_sbindir}/sheep
+%{_sbindir}/collie
+%attr(755,-,-)%config %{_initddir}/sheepdog
+%dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/sheepdog
+%{_mandir}/man8/sheep.8*
+
+%changelog
+* Sat May 21 2011 David Nalley <david@gnsa.us> - 0.2.3-1
+- updating to 0.2.3 to track upstream.
+
+* Fri May 20 2011 David Nalley <david@gnsa.us> - 0.2.2-2
+- removed -n from setup
+- hardcoded version number. 
+- changed lic from gpl to gplv2
+- added INSTALL to doc
+- added proper handling of initscripts
+
+* Fri May 20 2011 Autotools generated version <nobody@nowhere.org> - 0.2.2-1
+- Autotools generated version
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+2348fd7121558e4efe9cab1fda4bf70a  sheepdog-0.2.3.tar.gz