diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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+parted-1.2.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/parted.spec b/parted.spec
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+Summary: The GNU disk partition manipulation program.
+Name: parted
+Version: 1.2.8
+Release: 2
+Copyright: GPL
+Group: Applications/System
+Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
+Source0: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: parted-1.0.17-alpha-kernel-header.patch
+Patch1: parted-1.2.8-strtok.patch
+ExclusiveArch: i386
+%define _sbindir /sbin
+
+%description
+GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize,
+move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space
+for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data
+to new hard disks.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: The GNU disk partition manipulation program development files.
+Group: Development/Libraries
+
+%description devel
+The GNU Parted library is a set of routines for disk partition
+manipulation.  It contains functions that allow you to create,
+destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions.  Install the
+parted-devel package if you wish to develop programs that manipulate
+disk partitions and filesystems.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .alpha
+%patch1 -p1
+
+%build
+autoconf
+%configure --disable-shared
+make
+
+%install
+[ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%makeinstall
+
+%clean
+[ -n "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != / ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr (-, root, root)
+%doc AUTHORS BUGS ChangeLog README THANKS TODO doc/USER*
+%{_mandir}/*/*
+%{_datadir}/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo
+%{_sbindir}/*
+
+%files devel
+%defattr (-, root, root)
+%{_libdir}/libparted*
+%{_includedir}/parted
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Aug 29 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.com>
+- fix bug when just hitting "return" with no user input
+
+* Sun Aug 20 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.com>
+- 1.2.8
+- blksize patch not needed anymore
+- move changelog to the end of the spec file
+
+* Wed Aug 16 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
+- 1.2.7
+- patched configure script to ignore the 2.4 blkpg.h header (fixes #15835).
+
+* Fri Aug  4 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>
+- update to 1.2.6
+
+* Sat Jul 22 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>
+- update to 1.2.5
+- add more docu
+
+* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
+- automatic rebuild
+
+* Mon Jun 12 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
+- initialization of spec file.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+7e2b9806713e9550b311904074f53bdb  parted-1.2.8.tar.gz