diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e69de29..8d3ff1b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/libGLU-20120904.tar.xz
diff --git a/make-git-snapshot.sh b/make-git-snapshot.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..12c8325
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make-git-snapshot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Usage: ./make-git-snapshot.sh [COMMIT]
+#
+# to make a snapshot of the given tag/branch.  Defaults to HEAD.
+# Point env var REF to a local mesa repo to reduce clone time.
+
+DIRNAME=libGLU-$( date +%Y%m%d )
+
+echo REF ${REF:+--reference $REF}
+echo DIRNAME $DIRNAME
+echo HEAD ${1:-HEAD}
+
+rm -rf $DIRNAME
+
+git clone ${REF:+--reference $REF} \
+	git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/glu $DIRNAME
+
+GIT_DIR=$DIRNAME/.git git archive --format=tar --prefix=$DIRNAME/ ${1:-HEAD} \
+	| xz > $DIRNAME.tar.xz
+
+# rm -rf $DIRNAME
diff --git a/mesa-libGLU.spec b/mesa-libGLU.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1dffc96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mesa-libGLU.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+%define gitdate 20120904
+
+Name:           mesa-libGLU
+Version:        9.0
+Release:        0.1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Mesa libGLU library
+
+License:        MIT
+URL:            http://mesa3d.org/
+# snapshot only at this point
+Source0:        libGLU-%{gitdate}.tar.xz
+Source2:        make-git-snapshot.sh
+
+%if 0%{?gitdate}
+BuildRequires:  autoconf automake libtool
+%endif
+BuildRequires:  mesa-libGL-devel
+#Requires:       
+
+%description
+Mesa implementation of the standard GLU OpenGL utility API.
+
+%package        devel
+Summary:        Development files for %{name}
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires:       gl-manpages
+
+%description    devel
+The %{name}-devel package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n libGLU-%{?gitdate:%{gitdate}}%{?!gitdate:%{version}}
+
+%build
+%if 0%{?gitdate}
+autoreconf -v -i -f
+%endif
+%configure --disable-static
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/man/man3/gl[A-Z]*
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%{_libdir}/libGLU.so.1
+%{_libdir}/libGLU.so.1.3.*
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/GL/glu*.h
+%{_libdir}/libGLU.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/glu.pc
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Sep 04 2012 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> 9.0-0.1
+- Initial packaging for split libGLU
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..65a3acb 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+a1f8aca93eed0281bb25775b2aae1167  libGLU-20120904.tar.xz