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+Name:           memcached
+Version:        1.2.2
+Release:        5%{?dist}
+Summary:        High Performance, Distributed Memory Object Cache
+
+Group:          System Environment/Daemons
+License:        BSD
+URL:            http://www.danga.com/memcached/
+Source0:        http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+BuildRequires:  libevent-devel
+BuildRequires:  perl(Test::More)
+Requires: initscripts
+Requires(post): /sbin/chkconfig
+Requires(preun): /sbin/chkconfig, /sbin/service
+Requires(postun): /sbin/service
+
+%description
+memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching
+system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic
+web applications by alleviating database load.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+%build
+%configure --enable-threads
+
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%check
+make test
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
+
+# remove memcached-debug
+rm -f %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/memcached-debug
+
+# Perl script for monitoring memcached
+install -Dp -m0755 scripts/memcached-tool %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/memcached-tool
+
+# Init script
+install -Dp -m0755 scripts/memcached.sysv %{buildroot}%{_initrddir}/memcached
+
+# Default configs
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig
+cat <<EOF >%{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/%{name}
+PORT="11211"
+USER="nobody"
+MAXCONN="1024"
+CACHESIZE="64"
+OPTIONS=""
+EOF
+
+# pid directory
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_localstatedir}/run/memcached
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+
+%post
+/sbin/chkconfig --add %{name}
+
+%preun
+if [ "$1" = 0 ] ; then
+    /sbin/service %{name} stop > /dev/null 2>&1
+    /sbin/chkconfig --del %{name}
+fi
+exit 0
+
+%postun
+if [ "$1" -ge 1 ]; then
+    /sbin/service %{name} condrestart > /dev/null 2>&1
+fi
+exit 0
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README TODO doc/CONTRIBUTORS doc/*.txt
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/%{name}
+
+%dir %attr(750,nobody,nobody) %{_localstatedir}/run/memcached
+%{_bindir}/memcached-tool
+%{_bindir}/memcached
+%{_mandir}/man1/memcached.1*
+%{_initrddir}/memcached
+
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Jul  4 2007 Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> - 1.2.2-5
+- Use /var/run/memcached/ directory to hold PID file
+
+* Sat May 12 2007 Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> - 1.2.2-4
+- Remove tabs from spec file, rpmlint reports no more errors
+
+* Thu May 10 2007 Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> - 1.2.2-3
+- Enable build-time regression tests
+- add dependency on initscripts
+- remove memcached-debug (not needed in dist)
+- above suggestions from Bernard Johnson
+
+* Mon May  7 2007 Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> - 1.2.2-2
+- Tidyness improvements suggested by Ruben Kerkhof in bugzilla #238994
+
+* Fri May  4 2007 Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> - 1.2.2-1
+- Initial spec file created via rpmdev-newspec