diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+/libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/libnetfilter_cthelper.spec b/libnetfilter_cthelper.spec
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+Name:           libnetfilter_cthelper
+Version:        1.0.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        User-space infrastructure for connection tracking helpers
+License:        GPLv2
+URL:            http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_cthelper/index.html
+Source0:        http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_cthelper/files/libnetfilter_cthelper-%{version}.tar.bz2
+BuildRequires:  libmnl-devel >= 1.0.0, pkgconfig, kernel-headers
+
+%description
+This library provides the infrastructure for the user-space helper
+infrastructure available since the Linux kernel 3.6.
+
+%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
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure --disable-static
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%make_install
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%doc COPYING README
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%doc examples
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
+%dir %{_includedir}/libnetfilter_cthelper
+%{_includedir}/libnetfilter_cthelper/*.h
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Nov 26 2012 Paul Komkoff <i@stingr.net> - 1.0.0-1
+- new package
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..5d2e818 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
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+b2efab1a3a198a5add448960ba011acd  libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0.tar.bz2