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+/libnvme-1.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# libnvme
+
+The libnvme package
diff --git a/libnvme.spec b/libnvme.spec
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+# RHEL 8 compatibility
+%{!?version_no_tilde: %define version_no_tilde %{shrink:%(echo '%{version}' | tr '~' '-')}}
+
+Name:    libnvme
+Summary: Linux-native nvme device management library
+Version: 1.0
+Release: 2%{?dist}
+License: LGPLv2+
+URL:     https://github.com/linux-nvme/libnvme
+Source0: %{url}/archive/v%{version_no_tilde}/%{name}-%{version_no_tilde}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires: gcc gcc-c++
+BuildRequires: swig
+BuildRequires: python3-devel
+
+BuildRequires: meson >= 0.47.0
+BuildRequires: libuuid-devel
+BuildRequires: json-c-devel >= 0.13
+BuildRequires: openssl-devel
+
+%description
+Provides type definitions for NVMe specification structures,
+enumerations, and bit fields, helper functions to construct,
+dispatch, and decode commands and payloads, and utilities to connect,
+scan, and manage nvme devices on a Linux system.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: Development files for %{name}
+Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+This package provides header files to include and libraries to link with
+for Linux-native nvme device management.
+%package doc
+Summary: Reference manual for libnvme
+BuildArch: noarch
+BuildRequires: perl-interpreter
+BuildRequires: python3-sphinx
+BuildRequires: python3-sphinx_rtd_theme
+
+%description doc
+This package contains the reference manual for %{name}.
+
+%package -n python3-libnvme
+Summary:  Python3 bindings for libnvme
+Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Provides:  python3-nvme = %{version}-%{release}
+Obsoletes: python3-nvme < 1.0~rc7
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-libnvme}
+
+%description -n python3-libnvme
+This package contains Python bindings for libnvme.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1 -n %{name}-%{version_no_tilde}
+
+%build
+%meson -Dpython=true -Ddocs=all -Ddocs-build=true -Dhtmldir=%{_pkgdocdir}
+%meson_build
+
+%install
+%meson_install
+%{__install} -pm 644 README.md %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}
+%{__install} -pm 644 doc/config-schema.json %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}
+mv %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}/nvme/html %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}/html
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}/nvme
+
+%ldconfig_scriptlets
+
+%files
+%license COPYING ccan/licenses/*
+%{_libdir}/libnvme.so.1
+%{_libdir}/libnvme.so.1.0.0
+
+%files devel
+%{_libdir}/libnvme.so
+%{_includedir}/libnvme.h
+%dir %{_includedir}/nvme
+%{_includedir}/nvme/*.h
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
+
+%files doc
+%doc %{_pkgdocdir}
+%{_mandir}/man2/*.2*
+
+%files -n python3-libnvme
+%dir %{python3_sitearch}/libnvme
+%{python3_sitearch}/libnvme/*
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Apr 27 2022 Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> - 1.0-2
+-  Porting to RHEL 9
+
+* Mon Apr 11 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0-1
+- Upstream v1.0 release
+
+* Fri Apr 01 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc8-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 8
+
+* Wed Mar 23 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc7-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 7
+- Renamed python3-nvme subpackage to python3-libnvme
+
+* Mon Mar 14 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc6-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 6
+
+* Fri Mar 04 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc5-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 5
+
+* Mon Feb 28 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc4-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 4
+
+* Fri Feb 11 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc3-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 3
+
+* Tue Feb 01 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc2-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 2
+
+* Thu Jan 27 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc1-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 1
+
+* Mon Jan 17 2022 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0~rc0-1
+- Upstream v1.0 Release Candidate 0
+
+* Wed Oct 20 2021 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 0.0.1-1.git1fe38d6
+- Initial packaging
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+++ b/sources
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+SHA512 (libnvme-1.0.tar.gz) = 119c5f0f6eef47c8922d7c40ff8b6374e211364d8d2df64f1fcc72f2f83216fd81d55e7667d126ab6304128bb58f8e491f845b5a247f64b639a1654a57580f7c