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+Name:           lorax-templates-rhel
+Version:        8.1
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        RHEL8 build templates for lorax and livemedia-creator
+
+License:        GPLv2+
+URL:            https://github.com/weldr/lorax
+BuildArch:      noarch
+Source0:        lorax-templates-rhel-8.1-2.tar.gz
+
+# Where are these supposed to end up?
+%define templatedir %{_datadir}/lorax/templates.d/80-rhel
+
+%description
+RHEL-specific Lorax templates for creating the boot.iso and live isos are
+placed in %{templatedir}
+
+%prep
+%setup
+
+%build
+# nothing to build
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{templatedir}
+cp -a 80-rhel/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{templatedir}
+
+%files
+%dir %{templatedir}
+%{templatedir}/*
+
+%changelog
+* Wed May 15 2019 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.1-2
+- Install redhat-release-eula package (bcl)
+  Related: rhbz#1700465
+- Don't remove chmem and lsmem from install.img (bcl)
+  Resolves: rhbz#1691472
+- Include the hid-multitouch kernel module (bcl)
+  Resolves: rhbz#1670182
+- Add extra boot args to the livemedia-creator iso templates (bcl)
+  Resolves: rhbz#1694180
+- Add a ppc64le template for live iso creation (bcl)
+  Related: rhbz#1694180
+- Add live-install.tmpl (bcl)
+  Related: rhbz#1694180
+
+* Wed Mar 27 2019 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.1-1
+- Update package version for 8.1 release
+- Make sure lscpu is installed
+  Resolves: rhbz#1684735
+
+* Wed Sep 19 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-19
+- Include python3-pyatspi on boot.iso (bcl)
+  Resolves: rhbz#1543290
+
+* Wed Sep 12 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-18
+- re-add temporarily removed packages (bcl)
+  Related: rhbz#1622395
+- Use google-noto-sans-cjk-ttc-fonts (bcl)
+  Resolves: rhbz#1626368
+
+* Fri Sep 07 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-17
+- Install the oscap-anaconda-addon
+  Resolves: rhbz#1626459
+
+* Wed Aug 22 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-16
+- Install libreport-rhel-anaconda-bugzilla
+  Related: rhbz#1593734
+
+* Mon Aug 20 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-15
+- import-state.service from initscripts is needed by Anaconda
+  Resolves: rhbz#1618668
+
+* Mon Aug 20 2018 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - 8.0-14
+- Remove fbset from runtime-install
+  Resolves: rhbz#1615430
+
+* Wed Aug 15 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-13
+- Add prefixdevname package
+  Resolves: rhbz#1615991
+
+* Thu Aug 02 2018 Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> - 8.0-12
+- Drop dependency on bridge-utils Resolves: #1588705
+
+* Thu Jul 26 2018 Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> - 8.0-11
+- Expand variables and wildcards in runtime-install.tmpl
+- Cleanup the sections and packages not in RHEL8.
+
+* Wed Jul 25 2018 Andrew Hills <ahills@redhat.com> - 8.0-10
+- Drop btrfs-progs from installpkgs (RCM-38058)
+
+* Fri Jul 20 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-8
+- Don't activate default auto connections after switchroot
+  Resolves: rhbz#1555934
+
+* Mon Jul 09 2018 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> - 8.0-7
+- Add hostname to the rootfs for iscsi
+  Resolves: rhbz#1599183
+
+* Thu Jun 21 2018 Ian McLeod <imcleod@redhat.com> - 8.0-6
+- Temporarily disable dracut-fips to allow building images in VMs
+
+* Wed Jun 20 2018 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 8.0-5
+- Make sure perl-interpreter is installed
+
+* Tue Jun 19 2018 Ian McLeod <imcleod@redhat.com> - 8.0-4
+- Comment where RHEL8 removals have taken place
+- Temporarily remove X server and drivers from all architectures
+
+* Tue Jun 19 2018 Ian McLeod <imcleod@redhat.com> - 8.0-3
+- Properly update build environment to pull these changes in
+
+* Tue Jun 19 2018 Ian McLeod <imcleod@redhat.com> - 8.0-2
+- Remove several _more_ packages from installer - same reason as below
+
+* Tue Jun 19 2018 Ian McLeod <imcleod@redhat.com> - 8.0-1
+- Remove several packages from installer based on current state of BaseOS/AppStream
+
+* Mon Jun 18 2018 Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com> - 8.0-0
+- Initial creation of lorax-templates-rhel package