diff --git a/.c-ares.metadata b/.c-ares.metadata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b39911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.c-ares.metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+431d5ff705db752f5d25e610827b7cb3653fc7ff SOURCES/c-ares-1.17.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15feab0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SOURCES/c-ares-1.17.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/SOURCES/0001-Use-RPM-compiler-options.patch b/SOURCES/0001-Use-RPM-compiler-options.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..721b713
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0001-Use-RPM-compiler-options.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 7dada62a77e061c752123e672e844386ff3b01ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:32:44 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Use RPM compiler options
+
+---
+ m4/cares-compilers.m4 | 19 ++++++-------------
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/m4/cares-compilers.m4 b/m4/cares-compilers.m4
+index 7ee8e0dbe741c1a64149a0d20b826f507b3ec620..d7708230fb5628ae80fbf1052da0d2c78ebbc160 100644
+--- a/m4/cares-compilers.m4
++++ b/m4/cares-compilers.m4
+@@ -143,19 +143,12 @@ AC_DEFUN([CARES_CHECK_COMPILER_GNU_C], [
+ gccvhi=`echo $gccver | cut -d . -f1`
+ gccvlo=`echo $gccver | cut -d . -f2`
+ compiler_num=`(expr $gccvhi "*" 100 + $gccvlo) 2>/dev/null`
+- flags_dbg_all="-g -g0 -g1 -g2 -g3"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -ggdb"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -gstabs"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -gstabs+"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -gcoff"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -gxcoff"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -gdwarf-2"
+- flags_dbg_all="$flags_dbg_all -gvms"
+- flags_dbg_yes="-g"
+- flags_dbg_off="-g0"
+- flags_opt_all="-O -O0 -O1 -O2 -O3 -Os"
+- flags_opt_yes="-O2"
+- flags_opt_off="-O0"
++ flags_dbg_all=""
++ flags_dbg_yes=""
++ flags_dbg_off=""
++ flags_opt_all=""
++ flags_opt_yes=""
++ flags_opt_off=""
+ CURL_CHECK_DEF([_WIN32], [], [silent])
+ else
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+--
+1.8.1.4
diff --git a/SOURCES/LICENSE b/SOURCES/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c1423a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Copyright (C) 2004 by Daniel Stenberg et al
+
+Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
+documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
+that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
+copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or
+publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific,
+written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the
+suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
+without express or implied warranty.
+
diff --git a/SPECS/c-ares.spec b/SPECS/c-ares.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6ca80c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/c-ares.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,307 @@
+%global use_cmake 1
+
+Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
+Name: c-ares
+Version: 1.17.1
+Release: 4%{?dist}
+License: MIT
+URL: http://c-ares.haxx.se/
+Source0: http://c-ares.haxx.se/download/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+# The license can be obtained at http://c-ares.haxx.se/license.html
+Source1: LICENSE
+Patch0: 0001-Use-RPM-compiler-options.patch
+BuildRequires: gcc
+%if %{use_cmake}
+BuildRequires: cmake
+%else
+BuildRequires: autoconf
+BuildRequires: automake
+BuildRequires: libtool
+%endif
+BuildRequires: make
+
+%description
+c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves
+asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written
+by Greg Hudson at MIT.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: Development files for c-ares
+Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+This package contains the header files and libraries needed to
+compile applications or shared objects that use c-ares.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1
+
+cp %{SOURCE1} .
+f=CHANGES ; iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 $f -o $f.utf8 ; mv $f.utf8 $f
+
+%build
+# autoreconf -if
+# %%configure --enable-shared --disable-static \
+# --disable-dependency-tracking
+%if %{use_cmake}
+%{cmake} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR:PATH="%{_libdir}" -DCARES_BUILD_TOOLS:BOOL=OFF
+%cmake_build
+%else
+autoreconf -if
+%configure --enable-shared --disable-static \
+ --disable-dependency-tracking
+%{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
+%endif
+
+%install
+%if %{use_cmake}
+%cmake_install
+%else
+%make_install
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libcares.la
+%endif
+
+%ldconfig_scriptlets
+
+%files
+%license LICENSE
+%doc README.cares CHANGES NEWS
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/ares.h
+%{_includedir}/ares_build.h
+%{_includedir}/ares_dns.h
+%{_includedir}/ares_rules.h
+%{_includedir}/ares_version.h
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+%if %{use_cmake}
+%{_libdir}/cmake/c-ares/
+%endif
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libcares.pc
+%{_mandir}/man3/ares_*
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Aug 09 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 1.17.1-4
+- Rebuilt for IMA sigs, glibc 2.34, aarch64 flags
+ Related: rhbz#1991688
+
+* Thu Apr 15 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 1.17.1-3
+- Rebuilt for RHEL 9 BETA on Apr 15th 2021. Related: rhbz#1947937
+
+* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.17.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Nov 20 2020 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.17.1-1
+- update to 1.17.1
+
+* Tue Nov 17 2020 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.17.0-1
+- update to 1.17.0
+
+* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.1-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Jul 13 2020 Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com> - 1.16.1-2
+- Use make macros
+- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseMakeBuildInstallMacro
+
+* Mon May 11 2020 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.1-1
+- update to 1.16.1
+
+* Fri Mar 13 2020 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.16.0-1
+- update to 1.16.0
+
+* Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.15.0-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 24 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.15.0-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Mar 12 2019 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.15.0-3
+- use cmake to build so we get cmake helpers (bz1687844)
+
+* Thu Jan 31 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.15.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Nov 13 2018 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.16.0-1
+- Update to the latest upstream
+
+* Mon Sep 3 2018 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.14.0-1
+- Update to the latest upstream
+- Resolves: rhbz#1624499 - RFE: New c-ares release 1.14.0 available
+
+* Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.13.0-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.13.0-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Aug 02 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.13.0-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.13.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 20 2017 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.13.0-1
+- update to 1.13.0
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.12.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Sep 29 2016 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.12.0-1
+- update to 1.12.0
+
+* Fri Feb 19 2016 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.11.0
+- New upstream version 1.11.0
+
+* Wed Feb 03 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.10.0-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.10.0-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Aug 15 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.10.0-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.10.0-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.10.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon May 13 2013 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.10.1-1
+- New upstream release 1.10
+- Obsolete upstreamed patches
+- Amend the multilib patch, there's no need to patch configure since we
+ are running autoreconf anyways
+- https://raw.github.com/bagder/c-ares/cares-1_10_0/RELEASE-NOTES
+
+* Thu Apr 11 2013 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.9.1-6
+- Apply an upstream patch to override AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR only conditionally
+
+* Thu Apr 11 2013 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.9.1-5
+- Apply a patch by Stephen Gallagher to patch autoconf, not configure to
+ allow optflags to be passed in by build environment
+- Run autoreconf before configure
+- git rm obsolete patches
+- Apply upstream patch to stop overriding AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
+
+* Wed Feb 13 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.1-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Aug 8 2012 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.9.1-3
+- Include URL to the license text
+
+* Wed Jul 18 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Jun 25 2012 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.9.1-1
+- update to 1.9.1
+
+* Sat Apr 28 2012 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.0-1
+- update to 1.8.0
+- fix multilib patch (thanks to Paul Howarth)
+
+* Thu Jan 12 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.5-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Aug 17 2011 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.5-1
+- New upstream release 1.7.5
+- Obsoletes patch #2
+- Rebase patch #1 (optflags) to match the 1.7.5 code
+- Fixed Source0 URL to point at the upstream tarball
+
+* Mon Apr 11 2011 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.4-3
+- Apply upstream patch to fix rhbz#695424
+
+* Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.4-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Dec 10 2010 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.7.4-1
+- update to 1.7.4
+
+* Wed Aug 25 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.3-3
+- Actually apply the patches
+
+* Wed Aug 25 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.3-2
+- apply couple of patches from upstream
+
+* Tue Jun 15 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.3-1
+- Upgrade to new upstream release 1.7.3 (obsoletes search/domain patch)
+- Fix conflict of -devel packages on multilib architectures (#602880)
+
+* Thu Jun 3 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.1-2
+- Use last instance of search/domain, not the first one (#597286)
+
+* Tue Mar 23 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.1-1
+- update to 1.7.1 which contains the IPv6 nameserver patch
+
+* Sun Mar 7 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-3
+- Change IPv6 nameserver patch according to upstream changes
+ (upstream revisions 1199,1201,1202)
+
+* Wed Mar 3 2010 Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-2
+- Add a patch to allow usage of IPv6 nameservers
+
+* Tue Dec 1 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-1
+- update to 1.7.0
+
+* Sat Jul 25 2009 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 1.6.0-3
+- Patch to make upstream build system honor our CFLAGS and friends.
+- Don't bother building throwaway static libs.
+- Disable autotools dependency tracking for cleaner build logs and possible
+ slight build speedup.
+- Convert docs to UTF-8.
+- Update URLs.
+
+* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 22 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.6.0-1
+- update to 1.6.0
+
+* Mon Feb 23 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.3-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Sep 12 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.5.3-1
+- update to 1.5.3
+
+* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.1-2
+- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
+
+* Tue Feb 19 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.5.1-1
+- update to 1.5.1
+
+* Thu Aug 23 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.4.0-2
+- rebuild for ppc32
+
+* Wed Jun 27 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.4.0-1
+- bump to 1.4.0 (resolves bugzilla 243591)
+- get rid of static library (.a)
+
+* Wed Jan 17 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.3.2-1
+- bump to 1.3.2
+
+* Mon Sep 11 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.3.1-2
+- FC-6 bump
+
+* Mon Jul 10 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.3.1-1
+- bump to 1.3.1
+
+* Tue Feb 28 2006 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.3.0-2
+- bump for FC-5 rebuild
+
+* Sun Sep 4 2005 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.3.0-1
+- include LICENSE text
+- bump to 1.3.0
+
+* Tue May 31 2005 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.2.1-4
+- use dist tag to prevent EVR overlap
+
+* Fri Apr 22 2005 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.2.1-2
+- fix license (MIT, not LGPL)
+- get rid of libcares.la
+
+* Fri Apr 22 2005 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.2.1-1
+- initial package creation
+