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+/cjose-0.5.1.tar.gz
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-# cjose
-
-The cjose package
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+Name:           cjose
+Version:        0.5.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        C library implementing the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)
+
+License:        MIT
+URL:            https://github.com/cisco/cjose
+Source0:  	https://github.com/cisco/%{name}/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:  doxygen
+BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
+BuildRequires:  jansson-devel
+BuildRequires:  check-devel
+
+%description
+Implementation of JOSE for C/C++
+
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        Development files for %{name}
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description    devel
+The %{name}-devel package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{name}-%{version}
+
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make_build
+
+
+%install
+%make_install
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+
+%check
+make check
+
+
+%files
+%license LICENSE
+%doc CHANGELOG.md README.md
+%doc /usr/share/doc/cjose
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/*
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/cjose.pc
+
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Jan 26 2018 Patrick Uiterwijk <patrick@puiterwijk.org> - 0.5.1-1
+- Initial packaging
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+SHA512 (cjose-0.5.1.tar.gz) = 54e46c29111fa4589d8af7b249308809deb9f94803b8fd1fa7a48924a0efc55e2cc094610d5579ab1ae8c3524fa52c4c8b61e15d3ffeb87a8e20fbe2ad09c775