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+This package was retired due to no active owner on 2010-08-27
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-<hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small>
-Generated for $projectname by <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/
-index.html"><img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border="0"></a>
-$doxygenversion</small></address>
-</body>
-</html>
-
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-cec81bc38fd0aebc86fc5501fb9570b5  tinyows-0.8.0.tar.bz2
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-Name:      tinyows
-Version:   0.8.0
-Release:   1%{?dist}
-Summary:   WFS-T and FE implementation server
-
-Group:     Applications/Publishing
-License:   MIT
-URL:       http://www.tinyows.org
-Source0:   http://tinyows.org/tracdocs/release/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Source1:   no_date_footer.html
-BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-Requires:  httpd
-
-BuildRequires: ctags indent doxygen valgrind
-BuildRequires: libxml2-devel postgresql-devel
-
-%description
-TinyOWS server implements latest WFS-T standard versions,
-as well as related standards such as Filter Encoding (FE).
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
-
-# clean SVN
-find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf '{}' +
-
-%build
-autoconf
-%configure
-
-# fix datadir lookup path
-sed -i -e 's|/usr/tinyows/|%{_datadir}/%{name}/|' src/ows_define.h
-# fix DSO lookup
-sed -i -e 's|-lpq|-lpq -lm|' Makefile
-
-
-# WARNING
-# disable %{?_smp_mflags}
-# it breaks compile
-make
-
-# disable timestamp inside docs
-sed -i -e 's|HTML_FOOTER|HTML_FOOTER=no_date_footer.html\n\#|g' doc/Doxyfile
-make doxygen
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-install -d %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
-install -p -m 0755 tinyows %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/
-install -d %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}
-cp -pR schema %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/
-install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}
-install -p -m 0644 demo/config.xml %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}
-pushd %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/
-   ln -s ../../../%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/config.xml config.xml
-popd
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%check
-
-make %{?_smp_mflags} valgrind || true
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc LICENSE README VERSION
-%doc doc/doxygen
-%{_bindir}/%{name}
-%dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}
-%attr(644,root,root) %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/config.xml
-%{_datadir}/%{name}
-
-%changelog
-* Mon Jun 07 2010 Balint Cristian <cristian.balint@gmail.com> - 0.8.0-1
-- new upstream
-
-* Thu Mar 18 2010 Balint Cristian <rezso@rdsor.ro> - 0.7.0-1
-- new upstream
-
-* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.0-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.0-4
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Mon Jan 05 2009 Balint Cristian <rezso@rdsor.ro> - 0.6.0-3
-- initial import
-
-* Thu Sep 25 2008 Balint Cristian <rezso@rdsor.ro> - 0.6.0-2
-- shorter summary description
-
-* Thu Sep 25 2008 Balint Cristian <rezso@rdsor.ro> - 0.6.0-1
-- initial package for fedora