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+SOURCES/libmaxminddb-1.2.0.tar.gz
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+27b3a1cdf8f7053fa1b053ca8b31d4497ffa6019 SOURCES/libmaxminddb-1.2.0.tar.gz
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+Name:           libmaxminddb
+Summary:        C library for the MaxMind DB file format
+Version:        1.2.0
+Release:        6%{?dist}
+URL:            https://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb
+Source0:        https://github.com/maxmind/%{name}/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+# original libmaxminddb code is Apache Licence 2.0
+# src/maxminddb-compat-util.h is BSD
+License:        ASL 2.0 and BSD
+
+BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter
+Recommends:		geolite2-city, geolite2-country
+
+%description
+The package contains libmaxminddb library.
+
+%package devel
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires:       pkgconfig
+Summary:        Development header files for libmaxminddb
+
+%description devel
+The package contains development header files for the libmaxminddb library
+and the mmdblookup utility which allows IP address lookup in a MaxMind DB file.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure --disable-static
+# remove embeded RPATH
+sed -i 's|^hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=.*|hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=""|g' libtool
+sed -i 's|^runpath_var=LD_RUN_PATH|runpath_var=DIE_RPATH_DIE|g' libtool
+# link only requried libraries
+sed -i -e 's! -shared ! -Wl,--as-needed\0!g' libtool
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%check
+# tests are linked dynamically, preload the library as we have removed RPATH
+LD_PRELOAD=%{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libmaxminddb.so make check
+
+%install
+%make_install
+rm -fv %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%license LICENSE
+%{_libdir}/libmaxminddb.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%license NOTICE
+%doc Changes.md
+%{_bindir}/mmdblookup
+%{_includedir}/maxminddb.h
+%{_includedir}/maxminddb_config.h
+%{_libdir}/libmaxminddb.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libmaxminddb.pc
+%{_mandir}/man1/*
+%{_mandir}/man3/*
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Aug 02 2018 Michal Ruprich <mruprich@redhat.com> - 1.2.0-6
+- Adding libmaxminddb as a new package to RHEL-8 (rhbz#1607927)
+- Adding Recommends tag for geolite2 databases
+
+* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.0-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.0-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.0-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.0-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sun Mar 27 2016 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak@fedoraproject.org> 1.2.0-1
+- rebase to new version
+
+* Mon Mar 21 2016 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak@fedoraproject.org> 1.1.5-1
+- rebase to new version
+
+* Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.1-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Sep 15 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak@fedoraproject.org> 1.1.1-5
+- add pkg-config file from the upcoming upstream version
+
+* Mon Sep 14 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak@fedoraproject.org> 1.1.1-4
+- remove utils subpackage and place mmdblookup into devel subpackage
+- remove Group from the spec file
+- move NOTICE and Changes.md to devel subpackage
+
+* Thu Sep 03 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak@fedoraproject.org> 1.1.1-3
+- updated package licence
+- added --as-needed linker flag
+
+* Tue Sep 01 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak@fedoraproject.org> 1.1.1-1
+- initial version of the package