diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e69de29..99b0bd7 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
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+tevent-0.9.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/libtevent.spec b/libtevent.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b21549a
--- /dev/null
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+Name: libtevent
+Version: 0.9.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+Group: System Environment/Daemons
+Summary: The tevent library
+License: LGPLv3+
+URL: http://tevent.samba.org/
+Source: http://samba.org/ftp/tevent/tevent-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
+
+BuildRequires: libtalloc-devel >= 2.0.0
+
+%description
+Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library.
+Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and
+the classic file descriptor events.
+Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the
+tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions. 
+
+%package devel
+Group: Development/Libraries
+Summary: Developer tools for the Tevent library
+Requires: libtevent = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: libtalloc-devel >= 2.0.0
+Requires: pkgconfig
+
+%description devel
+Header files needed to develop programs that link against the Tevent library.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n tevent-%{version}
+
+%build
+%configure
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+ln -s libtevent.so.%{version} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libtevent.so.0
+ln -s libtevent.so.%{version} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libtevent.so
+
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libtevent.a
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{_libdir}/libtevent.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{_includedir}/tevent.h
+%{_libdir}/libtevent.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/tevent.pc
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Sep 8 2009 Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com> - 0.9.8-1
+- First independent release for tevent 0.9.8 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..c477cee 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+edc29f20fb508b6b860d70f0f07ccd3f  tevent-0.9.8.tar.gz