diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e69de29..f7616d6 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+version-0.51.tar.gz
diff --git a/perl-version.spec b/perl-version.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2934051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-version.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+Name:           perl-version
+Version:        0.51
+Release:        3%{?dist}
+Summary:        Perl extension for Version Objects
+Group:          Development/Libraries
+License:        GPL or Artistic
+URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/version
+Source0:        http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+BuildRequires:	perl(Module::Build) >= 0.2611
+Requires:	perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
+
+%description
+%{summary}
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n version-%{version}
+sed -i "s|#!perl|#!%{__perl}|" lib/version.pm lib/version/vxs.pm
+
+%build
+%{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+chmod u+x blib/lib/version.pm blib/lib/version/vxs.pm
+make install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f {} ';'
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name '*.bs' -a -size 0 -exec rm -f {} ';'
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type d -depth -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null ';'
+chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
+
+%check
+make test
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc Changes README
+%doc %{perl_vendorarch}/version.pod
+%{perl_vendorarch}/auto/version/
+%{perl_vendorarch}/version/
+%{perl_vendorarch}/version.pm
+%{_mandir}/man3/*.3*
+
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Jan  9 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 0.51-3
+- one sed line only, not global, using __perl
+
+* Sun Jan  8 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 0.51-2
+- clean up scripty bits of some .pm files
+
+* Fri Jan  6 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 0.51-1
+- bump to 0.51
+- pod file is doc
+
+* Fri Jan  6 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 0.50-2
+- don't pass optflags twice
+- remove .bs files
+
+* Thu Jan  5 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 0.50-1
+- Initial package for Fedora Extras
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..c15aa30 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+76e97f1d2d19f93fa28179fdc7704d95  version-0.51.tar.gz