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+This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to build this package for multiple releases (FTBFS).
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-c00e5fb96c30356ac3b67b2ab5d5641b  tinycdb_0.77.tar.gz
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-Name:		tinycdb
-Summary:	Utility and library for manipulating constant databases
-Version:	0.77
-Release:	3%{?dist}
-Group:		System Environment/Libraries
-License:	Public Domain
-URL:		http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html
-Source0:	http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/%{name}/%{name}_%{version}.tar.gz
-
-%description
-tinycdb is a small, fast and reliable utility and subroutine library for 
-creating and reading constant databases. The database structure is tuned
-for fast reading.
-
-This package contains tinycdb utility and shared library.
-
-%package devel
-Summary:	Development files for tinycdb
-Group:		Development/Libraries
-Requires:	%{name} = %{version}-%{release}
-
-%description devel
-tinycdb is a small, fast and reliable utility set and subroutine
-library for creating and reading constant databases.
-
-This package contains tinycdb development library and header file for 
-developing applications that use %{name}.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-sed -i -e 's\/lib\/%{_lib}\g' debian/libcdb.pc
-
-%build
-make %{?_smp_mflags} staticlib sharedlib cdb-shared CFLAGS="%{optflags}" 
-
-%install
-%makeinstall install-sharedlib \
-	INSTALLPROG=cdb-shared CP="cp -p"
-chmod +x %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.so.*
-rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib*.a
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/pkgconfig
-cp -p debian/libcdb.pc %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libcdb.pc
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc NEWS ChangeLog
-%{_bindir}/cdb
-%{_mandir}/man1/*.1*
-%{_mandir}/man5/*.5*
-%{_libdir}/*.so.*
-
-%files devel
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%{_includedir}/*.h
-%{_mandir}/man3/*.3*
-%{_libdir}/*.so
-%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
-
-%changelog
-* Wed Feb 09 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.77-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Tue Jul 13 2010 Chen Lei <supercyper@163.com> - 0.77-2
-- add pkgconfig file
-
-* Wed Jul 07 2010 Chen Lei <supercyper@163.com> - 0.77-1
-- initial rpm build