diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6e29d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SOURCES/librdkafka-0.11.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/.librdkafka.metadata b/.librdkafka.metadata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..510f50e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.librdkafka.metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+00e5b9c610697a0f32910fd1ef19e9b2c684824e SOURCES/librdkafka-0.11.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/SOURCES/librdkafka-python3.patch b/SOURCES/librdkafka-python3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be48a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/librdkafka-python3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+diff -up ./configure.librdkafka.python3 ./configure.librdkafka
+--- ./configure.librdkafka.python3 2018-06-28 14:31:29.059417830 +0200
++++ ./configure.librdkafka 2018-06-28 14:31:54.328300531 +0200
+@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ void foo (void) {
+
+ # The linker-script generator (lds-gen.py) requires python
+ if [[ $WITH_LDS == y ]]; then
+- if ! mkl_command_check python "HAVE_PYTHON" "disable" "python -V"; then
++ if ! mkl_command_check python "HAVE_PYTHON" "disable" "python3 -V"; then
+ mkl_err "disabling linker-script since python is not available"
+ mkl_mkvar_set WITH_LDS WITH_LDS "n"
+ fi
+diff -up ./lds-gen.py.python3 ./lds-gen.py
+--- ./lds-gen.py.python3 2017-07-19 22:10:29.000000000 +0200
++++ ./lds-gen.py 2018-06-28 14:22:12.745022430 +0200
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/env python
++#!/usr/bin/env python3
+ #
+ #
+ # Generate linker script to only expose symbols of the public API
+diff -up ./Makefile.python3 ./Makefile
+--- ./Makefile.python3 2018-06-28 14:32:46.176059853 +0200
++++ ./Makefile 2018-06-28 14:32:56.542011734 +0200
+@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ CHECK_FILES+= CONFIGURATION.md \
+ examples/rdkafka_example_cpp
+
+ PACKAGE_NAME?= librdkafka
+-VERSION?= $(shell python packaging/get_version.py src/rdkafka.h)
++VERSION?= $(shell python3 packaging/get_version.py src/rdkafka.h)
+
+ # Jenkins CI integration
+ BUILD_NUMBER ?= 1
+diff -up ./packaging/get_version.py.python3 ./packaging/get_version.py
+--- ./packaging/get_version.py.python3 2018-06-28 14:33:48.825769032 +0200
++++ ./packaging/get_version.py 2018-06-28 14:33:57.385729296 +0200
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/env python
++#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+ import sys
+
diff --git a/SPECS/librdkafka.spec b/SPECS/librdkafka.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7fb83e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/librdkafka.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+Name: librdkafka
+Version: 0.11.4
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+Summary: The Apache Kafka C library
+
+Group: Development/Libraries
+License: BSD
+URL: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
+Source0: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires: gcc
+BuildRequires: gcc-c++
+BuildRequires: python3
+BuildRequires: openssl-devel
+BuildRequires: cyrus-sasl-devel
+BuildRequires: lz4-devel
+
+Patch1: librdkafka-python3.patch
+
+%description
+Librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol,
+containing both Producer and Consumer support.
+It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind,
+current figures exceed 800000 messages/second for the producer and 3 million
+messages/second for the consumer.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: The Apache Kafka C library (Development Environment)
+Group: Development/Libraries
+Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol,
+containing both Producer and Consumer support.
+This package contains headers and libraries required to build applications
+using librdkafka.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%patch1 -p1 -b .python3
+
+%build
+%configure --enable-lz4 \
+ --enable-ssl \
+ --enable-sasl
+
+%make_build
+
+%check
+make check
+
+%install
+%make_install
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -delete -print
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka.so.*
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka++.so.*
+%doc README.md CONFIGURATION.md INTRODUCTION.md
+%license LICENSE LICENSE.pycrc LICENSE.snappy
+
+%files devel
+%dir %{_includedir}/librdkafka
+%attr(0644,root,root) %{_includedir}/librdkafka/*
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka.so
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka++.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka.pc
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka++.pc
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka-static.pc
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka++-static.pc
+
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Feb 08 2019 Jiri Vymazal <jvymazal@redhat.com> - 0.11.4-1
+- rebase to v0.11.4 (0.11.5 was breaking rsyslog-kafka)
+ resolves: rhbz#1614697
+
+* Fri Aug 10 2018 Jiri Vymazal <jvymazal@redhat.com> - 0.11.5-1
+- rebase to v0.11.5
+ resolves: rhbz#1614697
+- removed explicit %attr on symlinks
+
+* Thu Jun 28 2018 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.11.0-2
+- switch from python2 to python3
+ resolves: rhbz#1595795
+
+* Thu Aug 31 2017 Michal Luscon <mluscon@gmail.com> - 0.11.0-1
+- Update to 0.11.0
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon May 22 2017 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.9.5-1
+- Update to 0.9.4
+
+* Sat Mar 11 2017 Michal Luscon <mluscon@gmail.com> - 0.9.4-1
+- Update to 0.9.4
+- enable lz4, ssl, sasl
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.2-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+
+* Fri Nov 11 2016 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> 0.9.2-1
+- 0.9.2 release
+- package created