diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6965a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SOURCES/pycurl-7.43.0.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/.python-pycurl.metadata b/.python-pycurl.metadata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2291018
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.python-pycurl.metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+cd617ed4e40a3b8f5ca5bf54aba7f35ed25afa46 SOURCES/pycurl-7.43.0.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/SOURCES/0002-python-pycurl-7.43.0-tls-backend.patch b/SOURCES/0002-python-pycurl-7.43.0-tls-backend.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d6da04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0002-python-pycurl-7.43.0-tls-backend.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From 36dcccb94bef72a7c4cf6acf7479f18568e545bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 17:19:20 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] module: drop link-time vs. run-time TLS backend check
+
+This effectively reverts the following commit:
+8891398a31119ce7c872509ed60328926c51cdfb
+
+Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1446850
+---
+ src/module.c | 20 +-------------------
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/module.c b/src/module.c
+index a7108a0..af79875 100644
+--- a/src/module.c
++++ b/src/module.c
+@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ initpycurl(void)
+ {
+ PyObject *m, *d;
+ const curl_version_info_data *vi;
+- const char *libcurl_version, *runtime_ssl_lib;
++ const char *libcurl_version;
+ size_t libcurl_version_len, pycurl_version_len;
+ PyObject *xio_module = NULL;
+ PyObject *collections_module = NULL;
+@@ -345,24 +345,6 @@ initpycurl(void)
+ goto error;
+ }
+
+- /* Our compiled crypto locks should correspond to runtime ssl library. */
+- if (vi->ssl_version == NULL) {
+- runtime_ssl_lib = "none/other";
+- } else if (!strncmp(vi->ssl_version, "OpenSSL/", 8) || !strncmp(vi->ssl_version, "LibreSSL/", 9) ||
+- !strncmp(vi->ssl_version, "BoringSSL", 9)) {
+- runtime_ssl_lib = "openssl";
+- } else if (!strncmp(vi->ssl_version, "GnuTLS/", 7)) {
+- runtime_ssl_lib = "gnutls";
+- } else if (!strncmp(vi->ssl_version, "NSS/", 4)) {
+- runtime_ssl_lib = "nss";
+- } else {
+- runtime_ssl_lib = "none/other";
+- }
+- if (strcmp(runtime_ssl_lib, COMPILE_SSL_LIB)) {
+- PyErr_Format(PyExc_ImportError, "pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (%s) is different from compile-time ssl backend (%s)", runtime_ssl_lib, COMPILE_SSL_LIB);
+- goto error;
+- }
+-
+ /* Initialize the type of the new type objects here; doing it here
+ * is required for portability to Windows without requiring C++. */
+ p_Curl_Type = &Curl_Type;
+--
+2.10.2
+
diff --git a/SPECS/python-pycurl.spec b/SPECS/python-pycurl.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85724f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/python-pycurl.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,390 @@
+# python3 is not available on RHEL <= 7
+%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} > 7
+%bcond_without python3
+%else
+%bcond_with python3
+%endif
+
+# python2 is not available on RHEL > 7 and not needed on Fedora > 29
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 7 || 0%{?fedora} > 29
+%bcond_with python2
+%else
+%bcond_without python2
+%endif
+
+%global modname pycurl
+
+Name: python-%{modname}
+Version: 7.43.0.2
+Release: 3%{?dist}
+Summary: A Python interface to libcurl
+
+License: LGPLv2+ or MIT
+URL: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
+Source0: https://dl.bintray.com/pycurl/pycurl/pycurl-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+# drop link-time vs. run-time TLS backend check (#1446850)
+Patch2: 0002-python-pycurl-7.43.0-tls-backend.patch
+
+BuildRequires: gcc
+BuildRequires: libcurl-devel
+BuildRequires: openssl-devel
+BuildRequires: vsftpd
+
+# During its initialization, PycURL checks that the actual libcurl version
+# is not lower than the one used when PycURL was built.
+# Yes, that should be handled by library versioning (which would then get
+# automatically reflected by rpm).
+# For now, we have to reflect that dependency.
+%global libcurl_sed '/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION "/!d;s/"[^"]*$//;s/.*"//;q'
+%global curlver_h /usr/include/curl/curlver.h
+%global libcurl_ver %(sed %{libcurl_sed} %{curlver_h} 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+
+%description
+PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl. PycURL can be used to fetch
+objects identified by a URL from a Python program, similar to the
+urllib Python module. PycURL is mature, very fast, and supports a lot
+of features.
+
+%if %{with python2}
+%package -n python2-%{modname}
+Summary: Python interface to libcurl for Python 2
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{modname}}
+BuildRequires: python2-devel
+BuildRequires: python2-bottle
+BuildRequires: python2-nose
+Requires: libcurl%{?_isa} >= %{libcurl_ver}
+
+Provides: %{modname} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description -n python2-%{modname}
+PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl. PycURL can be used to fetch
+objects identified by a URL from a Python program, similar to the
+urllib Python module. PycURL is mature, very fast, and supports a lot
+of features.
+
+Python 2 version.
+%endif
+
+%if %{with python3}
+%package -n python3-%{modname}
+Summary: Python interface to libcurl for Python 3
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-%{modname}}
+BuildRequires: python3-devel
+BuildRequires: python3-bottle
+BuildRequires: python3-nose
+Requires: libcurl%{?_isa} >= %{libcurl_ver}
+
+%description -n python3-%{modname}
+PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl. PycURL can be used to fetch
+objects identified by a URL from a Python program, similar to the
+urllib Python module. PycURL is mature, very fast, and supports a lot
+of features.
+
+Python 3 version.
+%endif
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{modname}-%{version} -p1
+
+# remove binaries packaged by upstream
+rm -f tests/fake-curl/libcurl/*.so
+
+# remove a test-case that relies on sftp://web.sourceforge.net being available
+rm -f tests/ssh_key_cb_test.py
+
+# remove a test-case that fails in Koji
+rm -f tests/seek_cb_test.py
+
+# remove tests depending on the 'flaky' nose plug-in (not available in Fedora)
+grep '^import flaky' -r tests | cut -d: -f1 | xargs rm -fv
+
+# drop options that are not supported by nose in Fedora
+sed -e 's/ --show-skipped//' \
+ -e 's/ --with-flaky//' \
+ -i tests/run.sh
+
+%build
+%if %{with python2}
+%py2_build -- --with-openssl
+%endif
+%if %{with python3}
+%py3_build -- --with-openssl
+%endif
+
+%install
+export PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY=openssl
+%if %{with python2}
+%py2_install
+%endif
+%if %{with python3}
+%py3_install
+%endif
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/pycurl
+
+%if %{with python3}
+%check
+export PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch}
+export PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY=openssl
+export PYCURL_VSFTPD_PATH=vsftpd
+
+# relax crypto policy for the test-suite to make it pass again (#1611739)
+export OPENSSL_SYSTEM_CIPHERS_OVERRIDE=XXX
+export OPENSSL_CONF=
+
+make test PYTHON=%{__python3} NOSETESTS="nosetests-%{python3_version} -v" PYFLAKES=:
+rm -fv tests/fake-curl/libcurl/*.so
+%endif
+
+%if %{with python2}
+%files -n python2-%{modname}
+%license COPYING-LGPL COPYING-MIT
+%doc ChangeLog README.rst examples doc tests
+%{python2_sitearch}/curl/
+%{python2_sitearch}/%{modname}.so
+%{python2_sitearch}/%{modname}-%{version}-*.egg-info
+%endif
+
+%if %{with python3}
+%files -n python3-%{modname}
+%license COPYING-LGPL COPYING-MIT
+%doc ChangeLog README.rst examples doc tests
+%{python3_sitearch}/curl/
+%{python3_sitearch}/%{modname}.*.so
+%{python3_sitearch}/%{modname}-%{version}-*.egg-info
+%endif
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Dec 20 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0.2-3
+- drop build-time (%%check-only) dependency on pyflakes (#1661168)
+
+* Tue Aug 07 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0.2-2
+- relax crypto policy for the test-suite to make it pass again (#1611739)
+
+* Mon Jun 04 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0.2-1
+- update to 7.43.0.2
+
+* Wed May 30 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-17
+- make the python2 and python3 subpackages optional
+
+* Wed May 23 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-16
+- fix build failure caused by NotImplemented exceptions in winbuild.py
+
+* Wed Mar 14 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-15
+- enable vsftpd-based tests
+- run the test-suite for Python 3 only
+- do not disable TLS-SRP test because it is now supported by OpenSSL in Fedora
+
+* Mon Feb 19 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-14
+- add explicit BR for the gcc compiler
+
+* Fri Feb 09 2018 Iryna Shcherbina <ishcherb@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-13
+- Update Python 2 dependency declarations to new packaging standards
+ (See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3)
+
+* Fri Feb 09 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.43.0-12
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.43.0-11
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jul 27 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.43.0-10
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue May 02 2017 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-9
+- drop link-time vs. run-time TLS backend check (#1446850)
+
+* Thu Apr 27 2017 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-8
+- make pycurl compile against libcurl-openssl (#1445153)
+
+* Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.43.0-7
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Dec 12 2016 Stratakis Charalampos <cstratak@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-6
+- Rebuild for Python 3.6
+
+* Tue Nov 29 2016 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-5
+- Fix python2 subpackage name
+
+* Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.43.0-4
+- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages
+
+* Thu Apr 14 2016 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenko@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-3
+- Follow new packaging guidelines
+
+* Fri Feb 26 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-2
+- require libcurl of the same architecture as python-pycurl
+
+* Sat Feb 06 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.43.0-1
+- update to 7.43.0
+
+* Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.21.5-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jan 06 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.21.5-3
+- remove explicit dependency on keyutils-libs (reported by rpmlint)
+- update FSF address in COPYING-LGPL (detected by rpmlint)
+
+* Tue Jan 05 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.21.5-2
+- avoid installing binaries generated in %%check to /usr/share
+
+* Tue Jan 05 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.21.5-1
+- update to 7.21.5
+
+* Sat Nov 14 2015 Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@fedoraproject.org> - - 7.19.5.3-3
+- Remove build dependency on cherrypy as it's no longer needed for testing
+
+* Tue Nov 10 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.5.3-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/python3.5
+
+* Tue Nov 03 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.5.3-1
+- update to 7.19.5.3
+
+* Mon Nov 02 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.5.2-1
+- update to 7.19.5.2
+
+* Mon Sep 07 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.5.1-3
+- introduce CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_[0-2] (#1260408)
+
+* Thu Jun 18 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.5.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Jan 12 2015 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.5.1-1
+- update to 7.19.5.1
+
+* Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.5-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sun Aug 3 2014 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.5-2
+- fix license handling
+
+* Mon Jul 14 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.5-1
+- update to 7.19.5
+
+* Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.3.1-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon May 19 2014 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 7.19.3.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3.4
+
+* Thu Feb 06 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.3.1-1
+- update to 7.19.3.1
+
+* Fri Jan 10 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.3-2
+- add python3 subpackage (#1014583)
+
+* Fri Jan 10 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.3-1
+- update to 7.19.3
+
+* Thu Jan 02 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0.3-1
+- update to 7.19.0.3
+
+* Tue Oct 08 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0.2-1
+- update to 7.19.0.2
+
+* Wed Sep 25 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0.1-1
+- update to 7.19.0.1
+
+* Thu Aug 08 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-18.20130315git8d654296
+- sync with upstream 8d654296
+
+* Sun Aug 04 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.0-17.20120408git9b8f4e38
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Apr 09 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-16.20120408git9b8f4e38
+- sync with upstream 9b8f4e38 (fixes #928370)
+- add the GLOBAL_ACK_EINTR constant to the list of exported symbols (#920589)
+- temporarily disable tests/multi_socket_select_test.py
+
+* Wed Mar 06 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-15
+- allow to return -1 from the write callback (#857875)
+- remove the patch for curl-config --static-libs no longer needed
+- run the tests against the just built pycurl, not the system one
+
+* Mon Feb 25 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-14
+- apply bug-fixes committed to upstream CVS since 7.19.0 (fixes #896025)
+
+* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.0-13
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Aug 22 2012 Jan Synáček <jsynacek@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-12
+- Improve spec
+
+* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.0-11
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.0-10
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.0-9
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Dec 20 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 7.19.0-8
+- add Missing Requires on keyutils-libs
+
+* Tue Aug 17 2010 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.19.0-7
+- Add patch developed by David Malcolm to fix segfaults caused by a missing incref
+
+* Thu Jul 22 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7/MassRebuild
+
+* Tue Mar 2 2010 Karel Klic <kklic@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-5
+- Package COPYING2 file
+- Added MIT as a package license
+
+* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.19.0-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Apr 17 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-3
+- fix typo in the previous change
+
+* Fri Apr 17 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal@redhat.com> - 7.19.0-2
+- add a require to reflect a dependency on libcurl version (#496308)
+
+* Thu Mar 5 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.19.0-1
+- Update to 7.19.0
+
+* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.18.2-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Nov 29 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm@gmail.com> - 7.18.2-2
+- Rebuild for Python 2.6
+
+* Thu Jul 3 2008 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.18.2-1
+- Update to 7.18.2
+- Thanks to Ville Skyttä re-enable the tests and fix a minor problem
+ with the setup.py. (Bug # 45400)
+
+* Thu Jun 5 2008 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.18.1-1
+- Update to 7.18.1
+- Disable tests because it's not testing the built library, it's trying to
+ test an installed library.
+
+* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.16.4-3
+- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
+
+* Thu Jan 3 2008 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.16.4-2
+- BR openssl-devel
+
+* Wed Aug 29 2007 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.16.4-1
+- Update to 7.16.4
+- Update license tag.
+
+* Sat Jun 9 2007 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.16.2.1-1
+- Update to released version.
+
+* Thu Dec 7 2006 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.16.0-0.1.20061207
+- Update to a CVS snapshot since development has a newer version of curl than is in FC <= 6
+
+* Thu Dec 7 2006 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.15.5.1-4
+- Add -DHAVE_CURL_OPENSSL to fix PPC build problem.
+
+* Thu Dec 7 2006 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.15.5.1-3
+- Don't forget to Provide: pycurl!!!
+
+* Thu Dec 7 2006 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.15.5.1-2
+- Remove INSTALL from the list of documentation
+- Use python_sitearch for all of the files
+
+* Thu Dec 7 2006 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> - 7.15.5.1-1
+- First version for Fedora Extras