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+/python-dipy-756b519.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-dipy.spec b/python-dipy.spec
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+# No py3 since it depends on nibabel which we only provide for py3
+%global srcname dipy
+
+%global desc %{expand: \
+DIPY is a python toolbox for analysis of MR diffusion imaging.
+DIPY is for research only; please do not use results from DIPY for clinical
+decisions.
+
+Current information can always be found from the DIPY website - http://dipy.org}
+
+%global commit 756b519f13437c484477b17088549000ab2dfa5a
+%global shortcommit %(c=%{commit}; echo ${c:0:7})
+
+# Full documentation downloads 100+MB of data, so we'd rather users look at the
+# upstream documentation
+%bcond_without docs
+
+# Fail because of xvfb related errors
+%bcond_with tests
+
+%{?python_enable_dependency_generator}
+
+Name:           python-%{srcname}
+Version:        0.15.0
+Release:        0.1.git%{shortcommit}%{?dist}
+Summary:        Diffusion MRI utilities in python
+
+License:        BSD
+URL:            http://nipy.org/dipy/
+Source0:        https://github.com/nipy/dipy/archive/%{commit}/%{name}-%{shortcommit}.tar.gz
+
+%description
+%{desc}
+
+%package -n python3-%{srcname}
+Summary:        %{summary}
+BuildRequires:      python3-devel
+BuildRequires:      gcc
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist setuptools}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist nose}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist Cython}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist numpy}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist scipy}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist nibabel}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist h5py}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist matplotlib}
+BuildRequires:      python3-vtk
+%if %{with tests}
+BuildRequires:      %{py3_dist xvfbwrapper}
+BuildRequires:      xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
+%endif
+
+# Required for some modules but not in Fedora yet
+# BuildRequires:      %%{py3_dist cvxpy}
+
+Suggests:           %{py3_dist ipython}
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-%{srcname}}
+
+%description -n python3-%{srcname}
+%{desc}
+
+%package doc
+BuildArch:      noarch
+Summary:        %{summary}
+
+%description doc
+Documentation for %{name}.
+
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -n %{srcname}-%{commit}
+export TEST_WITH_XVFB=true
+# clean it all up (from the Makefile)
+find . -name "*.so" -print -delete
+find . -name "*.pyd" -print -delete
+find . -name "*.c" -print -delete
+find . -name "*.html" -print -delete
+rm -rf build
+rm -rf docs/_build
+rm -rf docs/dist
+rm -rf dipy/dipy.egg-info
+
+# Correct interpreter for these---used in building docs and so on
+sed -i 's/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python/#!\/usr\/bin\/python3/' doc/tools/docgen_cmd.py
+sed -i 's/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python/#!\/usr\/bin\/python3/' doc/tools/build_modref_templates.py
+find tools/ -name "*.py" -exec sed -i 's/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python/#!\/usr\/bin\/python3/' '{}' \;
+
+# Other shebangs and permission fixes
+for f in "dipy/boots/resampling.py" "dipy/reconst/benchmarks/bench_csd.py" "dipy/reconst/dki.py" "dipy/reconst/dti.py"  "dipy/workflows/mask.py" "dipy/workflows/tracking.py" "dipy/reconst/dki_micro.py"
+do
+    chmod -x "$f"
+    sed -i '/^#!\/usr\/bin\/env python/ d' "$f"
+    sed -i '/^#!\/usr\/bin\/python/ d' "$f"
+done
+
+%build
+export TEST_WITH_XVFB=true
+%py3_build
+
+%if %{with docs}
+pushd doc
+    export PYTHONPATH=../build/
+    make SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build-3 PYTHON=%{__python3} html
+    rm -rf _build/html/.doctrees
+    rm -rf _build/html/.buildinfo
+popd
+%endif
+
+%install
+%py3_install
+
+%check
+export TEST_WITH_XVFB=True
+%if %{with tests}
+%{__python3} -c 'import dipy; dipy.test()'
+%endif
+
+%files -n python3-%{srcname}
+%license LICENSE
+%doc README.rst Changelog AUTHOR
+%{_bindir}/dipy_fit_csa
+%{_bindir}/dipy_fit_csd
+%{_bindir}/dipy_fit_dki
+%{_bindir}/dipy_fit_dti
+%{_bindir}/dipy_fit_mapmri
+%{_bindir}/dipy_info
+%{_bindir}/dipy_labelsbundles
+%{_bindir}/dipy_mask
+%{_bindir}/dipy_median_otsu
+%{_bindir}/dipy_nlmeans
+%{_bindir}/dipy_recobundles
+%{_bindir}/dipy_reslice
+%{_bindir}/dipy_slr
+%{_bindir}/dipy_track_det
+%{python3_sitearch}/%{srcname}
+%{python3_sitearch}/%{srcname}-%{version}dev-py3.?.egg-info
+
+%files doc
+%license LICENSE
+# Installed by package
+%{_docdir}/%{srcname}/examples
+%if %{with docs}
+%doc doc/_build/html
+%endif
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Nov 15 2018 Ankur Sinha <ankursinha AT fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.15.0-0.1.git756b519
+- Initial rpm build
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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