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+17cde387e0f19112d647095624e5ed4051b753be SOURCES/snappy-1.1.0.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:           snappy
+Version:        1.1.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Fast compression and decompression library
+
+Group:          System Environment/Libraries
+License:        BSD
+URL:            http://code.google.com/p/snappy/
+Source0:        http://snappy.googlecode.com/files/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+%description
+Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum 
+compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it 
+aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to 
+the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most 
+inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% 
+bigger. 
+
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        Development files for %{name}
+Group:          Development/Libraries
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description    devel
+The %{name}-devel package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+%build
+%configure CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -DNDEBUG" --disable-static
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/snappy/
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+%check
+make check
+
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README
+%{_libdir}/libsnappy.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc format_description.txt framing_format.txt
+%{_includedir}/snappy*.h
+%{_libdir}/libsnappy.so
+
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Jul 17 2013 Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> 1.1.0-1.el7
+- Removed unnecessary gtest-devel BuildRequires
+
+* Wed Feb 06 2013 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.1.0-1
+- updated to new release
+
+* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.5-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Feb 24 2012 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.5-1
+- updated to release 1.0.5
+- made dependency of devel package on base package arch dependant
+
+* Tue Jan 17 2012 Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel@natemccallum.com> - 1.0.4-3
+- Add in buildroot stuff for EL5 build
+
+* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.4-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Sep 16 2011 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.4-1
+- updated to release 1.0.4
+
+* Sat Jun 04 2011 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.3-1
+- updated to release 1.0.3
+- added format description to devel package
+
+* Fri Apr 29 2011 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.2-1
+- updated to release 1.0.2
+- changed License to BSD
+- dropped the patch as it has been applied upstream
+
+* Thu Mar 24 2011 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.0-3
+- added file COPYING from the upstream repo
+
+* Thu Mar 24 2011 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.0-2
+- replaced $CXXFLAGS with %%{optflags} in %%build section
+- removed empty %%doc entry from %%files devel
+
+* Thu Mar 24 2011 Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking@uos.de> 1.0.0-1
+- initial package
+