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+SOURCES/libfabric-1.7.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/.libfabric.metadata b/.libfabric.metadata
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+3a7d939d60d87ca9629a53ff2e4ca72efe5ab750 SOURCES/libfabric-1.7.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/SPECS/libfabric.spec b/SPECS/libfabric.spec
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+Name: libfabric
+Version: 1.7.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+Summary: User-space RDMA Fabric Interfaces
+Group: System Environment/Libraries
+License: GPLv2 or BSD
+Url: http://www.github.com/ofiwg/libfabric
+Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+
+BuildRequires: librdmacm-devel
+BuildRequires: libibverbs-devel >= 1.2.0
+BuildRequires: libnl3-devel
+
+# infinipath-psm-devel only available for x86_64
+%ifarch x86_64
+BuildRequires: infinipath-psm-devel
+BuildRequires: libpsm2-devel
+%endif
+# valgrind is unavailable for s390
+%ifnarch s390
+BuildRequires: valgrind-devel
+%endif
+
+%ifarch x86_64
+%global configopts --enable-sockets --enable-verbs --enable-usnic --disable-static --enable-psm --enable-psm2
+%else
+%global configopts --enable-sockets --enable-verbs --enable-usnic --disable-static
+%endif
+
+%description
+libfabric provides a user-space API to access high-performance fabric
+services, such as RDMA.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: Development files for the libfabric library
+Group: System Environment/Libraries
+Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+Development files for the libfabric library.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+
+# defaults: with-dlopen can be over-rode:
+%configure %{?_without_dlopen} %{configopts} \
+%ifnarch s390
+	--with-valgrind
+%endif
+
+make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
+
+%install
+%make_install
+# remove unpackaged files from the buildroot
+rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%{_libdir}/libfabric.so.*
+%{_bindir}/fi_info
+%{_bindir}/fi_pingpong
+%{_bindir}/fi_strerror
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/%{name}.pc
+%{_mandir}/man1/*
+%license COPYING
+%doc AUTHORS README
+
+%files devel
+%{_libdir}/libfabric.so
+%{_includedir}/*
+%{_mandir}/man3/*
+%{_mandir}/man7/*
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jan 31 2019 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-1
+- Rebase to latest release 1.7.0
+- Resolves: bz1637246
+
+* Sat Sep 22 2018 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.6.1-2
+- Revert a psm2 commit to avoid sporadic assertion failures
+- Resolves: bz1631874
+
+* Tue Jun  5 2018 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.6.1-1
+- Rebase to latest release 1.6.1
+- Resolves: bz1483568
+
+* Wed Jan 10 2018 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.5.3-1
+- Rebase to latest release 1.5.3
+- Resolves: bz1533293
+
+* Thu Jan  4 2018 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.5.1-3
+- Add support of different CQ formats for the verbs/RDM
+- Resolves: bz1530715
+
+* Fri Oct 20 2017 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.5.1-2
+- Fix PPC32 compiling issue
+- Resolves: bz1504395
+
+* Tue Oct 17 2017 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.5.1-1
+- Rebase to v1.5.1
+- Resolves: bz1452791
+
+* Tue May 16 2017 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
+- Update to upstream v1.4.2 release
+- Related: bz1451100
+
+* Wed Mar 01 2017 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1
+- Update to upstream v1.4.1 release
+- Related: bz1382827
+
+* Mon May 30 2016 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-3
+- Rebuild against latest infinipath-psm.
+- Related: bz1280143
+
+* Mon May 30 2016 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-2
+- Rebuild libfabric to support Intel OPA PSM2.
+- Related: bz1280143
+
+* Wed May  4 2016 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-1
+- Update to latest upstream release
+- Related: bz1280143
+
+* Wed Sep 30 2015 Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-2
+- Rebuild against libnl3 now that the UD RoCE bug is fixed
+- Related: bz1261028
+
+* Fri Aug 14 2015 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-1
+- Rebase to upstream 1.1.0
+- Resolves: bz1253381
+
+* Fri Aug 07 2015 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.2.rc4
+- Packaging Guidelines conformance fixes and spec file cleanups
+- Related: bz1235266
+
+* Thu Aug  6 2015 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.1.rc4
+- fix N-V-R issue and disable static library
+- Related: bz1235266
+
+* Tue Aug  4 2015 Honggang Li <honli@redhat.com> - 1.1.0rc4
+- Initial build for RHEL-7.2
+- Related: bz1235266
+
+* Fri Jun 26 2015 Open Fabrics Interfaces Working Group <ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org> 1.1.0rc1
+- Release 1.1.0rc1
+
+* Sun May 3 2015 Open Fabrics Interfaces Working Group <ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org> 1.0.0
+- Release 1.0.0