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+kitchen-0.2a2.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-kitchen.spec b/python-kitchen.spec
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+%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
+
+Name:           python-kitchen
+Version:        0.2
+Release:        0.1.a2%{?dist}
+Summary:        Small, useful pieces of code to make python coding easier
+
+Group:          Development/Languages
+License:        LGPLv2+
+URL:            https://fedorahosted.org//kitchen/
+Source0:        https://fedorahosted.org/releases/k/i/kitchen/kitchen-%{version}a2.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  python2-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-nose
+%if 0%{?fedora}
+BuildRequires: python-chardet
+Requires: python-chardet
+%endif
+
+%description
+kitchen includes functions to make gettext easier to use, handling unicode
+text easier (conversion with bytes, outputting xml, and calculating how many
+columns a string takes), and compatibility modules for writing code that uses
+python-2.7 modules but needs to run on python-2.3 
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n kitchen-%{version}a2
+
+
+%build
+%{__python} setup.py build
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%check
+# In current mock, the PATH isn't being reset.  This causes failures in some
+# subprocess tests as a check tests /root/bin/PROGRAM and fails with Permission
+# Denied instead of File Not Found.  reseting the PATH works around this.
+PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
+nosetests
+ 
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc COPYING README NEWS COPYING.LESSER docs/
+%{python_sitelib}/*
+
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jul 29 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.2-0.1.a2
+- propoerlly version accrding to pre-release guidelines
+- run tests
+- update to 0.2a2
+- include COPYING.LESSER and docs dir
+
+* Thu Jul 29 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.2a1-2
+- rename to python-kitchen
+
+* Thu Jul 29 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.2a1-1
+- update to 0.2a1
+
+* Thu Jul 15 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.1a3-3
+- fix spelling mistake in description
+
+* Thu Jul 15 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.1a3-2
+- add documentaion
+- fix description
+
+* Thu Jul 15 2010 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.1a3-1
+- initial package
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+54eb68eacf4df9f910aa7533399c986a  kitchen-0.2a2.tar.gz