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+1186264cc97813e2e857b40eaac67dca38ae6892 SOURCES/plexus-cipher-1.7.tar.gz
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-The master branch has no content
-
-Look at the c7 branch if you are working with CentOS-7, or the c4/c5/c6 branch for CentOS-4, 5 or 6
-
-If you find this file in a distro specific branch, it means that no content has been checked in yet
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+Name: plexus-cipher
+Version: 1.7
+Release: 4%{?dist}
+Summary: Plexus Cipher: encryption/decryption Component
+
+License: ASL 2.0
+# project moved to GitHub and it looks like there is no official website anymore
+URL: https://github.com/sonatype/plexus-cipher
+# git clone https://github.com/sonatype/plexus-cipher.git
+# cd plexus-cipher/
+# note this is version 1.7 + our patches which were incorporated by upstream maintainer
+# git archive --format tar --prefix=plexus-cipher-1.7/ 0cff29e6b2e | gzip -9 > plexus-cipher-1.7.tar.gz
+Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+BuildRequires: java-devel >= 1:1.6.0
+BuildRequires: maven-local
+BuildRequires: maven-plugin-plugin
+BuildRequires: maven-resources-plugin
+BuildRequires: maven-doxia-sitetools
+BuildRequires: forge-parent
+BuildRequires: spice-parent
+BuildRequires: plexus-containers-component-metadata
+BuildRequires: junit
+BuildRequires: maven-shared-reporting-impl
+BuildRequires: plexus-digest
+BuildRequires: sisu-maven-plugin
+BuildRequires: sisu-inject-bean
+
+Requires: jpackage-utils
+Requires: java
+
+
+%description
+Plexus Cipher: encryption/decryption Component
+
+%package javadoc
+Summary: Javadoc for %{name}
+
+%description javadoc
+API documentation for %{name}.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+# replace %{version}-SNAPSHOT with %{version}
+%pom_xpath_replace pom:project/pom:version "%{version}"
+
+%mvn_file : plexus/%{name}
+
+%build
+%mvn_build -f
+
+%install
+%mvn_install
+
+%files -f .mfiles
+%doc LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt
+
+%files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
+%doc LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Aug 19 2013 Stanislav Ochotnicky - 1.7-4
+- Migrate away from mvn-rpmbuild (#997451)
+
+* Fri Jun 28 2013 Mikolaj Izdebski - 1.7-3
+- Rebuild to regenerate API documentation
+- Resolves: CVE-2013-1571
+
+* Wed Mar 13 2013 Michal Srb - 1.7-1
+- Update to upstream version 1.7
+
+* Thu Feb 21 2013 Mikolaj Izdebski - 1.5-15
+- Reemove BR: plexus-container-default
+
+* Fri Feb 08 2013 Michal Srb - 1.5-14
+- Remove unnecessary dependency on plexus-containers (#908586)
+
+* Wed Feb 06 2013 Java SIG - 1.5-13
+- Update for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Maven_Rebuild
+- Replace maven BuildRequires with maven-local
+
+* Wed Jan 02 2013 Michal Srb - 1.5-12
+- Fixed URL (Resolves: #880322)
+
+* Tue Nov 27 2012 Mikolaj Izdebski - 1.5-11
+- Improve randomness of PBECipher
+- Resolves: rhbz#880279
+
+* Mon Nov 26 2012 Mikolaj Izdebski - 1.5-10
+- Remove duplicated NOTICE file
+
+* Mon Nov 26 2012 Stanislav Ochotnicky - 1.5-9
+- Add ASL 2.0 text and install NOTICE file
+
+* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.5-8
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.5-7
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jul 26 2011 Jaromir Capik - 1.5-6
+- Migration from plexus-maven-plugin to plexus-containers-component-metadata
+- Minor spec file changes according to the latest guidelines
+
+* Fri Jun 3 2011 Alexander Kurtakov 1.5-5
+- Do not require maven2.
+- Build with maven (v. 3) by default.
+- drop obsoleted parts of the spec.
+
+* Wed Feb 09 2011 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.5-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 01 2010 Hui Wang - 1.5-3
+- Add NOTICE.text
+- Fix URL
+- Fix direction of install pom
+
+* Sun May 23 2010 Hui Wang - 1.5-2
+- Correct URL
+
+* Tue May 18 2010 Hui Wang - 1.5-1
+- Initial version of the package