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+cyrus-sasl-1.5.24.tar.gz
diff --git a/cyrus-sasl.spec b/cyrus-sasl.spec
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+Summary: The Cyrus SASL librarysystem.
+Name: cyrus-sasl
+Version: 1.5.24
+Release: 3
+Copyright: distributable
+Group: System Environment/Libraries
+Source: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/cyrus-sasl-%{version}.tar.gz
+URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html
+Patch0: cyrus-sasl-1.5.21-des.patch
+Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
+Requires: pam
+Prereq: /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%description
+The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus SASL implementation.  SASL is the
+Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication
+support to connection-based protocols.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .des
+
+%build
+autoconf
+%configure --with-plugindir=%{_libdir}/sasl \
+	--with-dblib=gdbm \
+	--disable-krb4 \
+	--without-rc4 \
+	--enable-anon \
+	--enable-plain \
+	--enable-login \
+	--disable-cram
+make
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%{makeinstall}
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README TODO doc/*.html doc/*.txt
+%{_includedir}/*.h
+%dir %{_libdir}/sasl/
+%{_libdir}/sasl/libanonymous*
+%{_libdir}/sasl/libdigestmd5*
+#%{_libdir}/sasl/libgssapi*
+%{_libdir}/sasl/liblogin*
+%{_libdir}/sasl/libplain*
+%{_libdir}/libsasl*
+%{_mandir}/*/*
+%{_sbindir}/saslpasswd
+%{_sbindir}/sasldblistusers
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Aug  4 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
+- force use of gdbm for database files
+- enable login
+- disable gssapi until it can coexist peacefully with non-gssapi setups
+- actually do a make in the build section (#15410)
+
+* Fri Jul 21 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
+- update to 1.5.24
+
+* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
+- automatic rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 27 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
+- rebuild in new environment (release 3)
+
+* Mon Jun 19 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
+- don't muck with syslogd in post
+- remove patch for db-3.0 wackiness, no longer needed
+
+* Thu Jun  8 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
+- FHS cleanup
+- don't strip anything by default
+
+* Fri Feb 11 2000 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- fixed man pages not being gzipped
+
+* Tue Nov 16 1999 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- incorporated changes from Mads Kiilerich
+- release number is 1, not mk1
+
+* Tue Nov 10 1999 Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
+- updated to sasl 1.5.11
+- configure --disable-krb4 --without-rc4 --disable-cram 
+  because of missing libraries and pine having cram as default...
+- handle changing libsasl.so versions
+
+* Mon Aug 30 1999 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- changed group
+
+* Fri Aug 13 1999 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- first build for Powertools
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+aedc0f8b594e2a13503b375ed78f62b7  cyrus-sasl-1.5.24.tar.gz