diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/rosinstall-0.6.19.tar.bz2
diff --git a/python-rosinstall.spec b/python-rosinstall.spec
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+%global realname rosinstall
+
+Name:           python-rosinstall
+Version:        0.6.19
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        ROS installation utilities
+
+License:        BSD
+URL:            http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosinstall
+BuildArch:      noarch
+#source obtained from hg snapshot:
+#hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/vcstools/rosinstall; cd rosinstall
+#hg checkout 0.6.19; rm -rf .hg*; cd ..; mv rosinstall rosinstall-0.6.19
+#tar cjf rosinstall-0.6.19.tar.bz2 rosinstall-0.6.19
+Source0:        %{realname}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+
+BuildRequires:  python-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-setuptools-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-sphinx
+Requires:       python-vcstools
+
+%description
+rosinstall is a tool to check out ROS source code (or any source code, really)
+from multiple version control repositories and updating these checkouts. Given 
+a *.rosinstall file that specifies where to get code, rosinstall will check 
+out a working copy for you. 
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{realname}-%{version}
+
+
+%build
+%{__python} setup.py build
+pushd doc
+make html
+make man
+popd
+
+%install
+%{__python} setup.py install --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1
+install -p -m 0644 doc/_build/man/%{realname}.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1/
+rm -rf doc/_build/html/.buildinfo
+
+%files
+%doc doc/_build/html LICENSE README
+%{_bindir}/*
+%{python_sitelib}/%{realname}
+%{python_sitelib}/%{realname}-%{version}-py?.?.egg-info
+%{_mandir}/man1/%{realname}.1.gz
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Oct 08 2012 Rich Mattes <richmattes@gmail.com> - 0.6.19-2
+- Separated build and install steps for setup.py
+- Added README and LICENSE
+
+* Sun Sep 02 2012 Rich Mattes <richmattes@gmail.com> - 0.6.19-1
+- Update to release 0.6.19
+
+* Wed Jun 06 2012 Rich Mattes <richmattes@gmail.com> - 0.6.17-1
+- Update to release 0.6.17
+
+* Wed Apr 25 2012 Rich Mattes <richmattes@gmail.com> - 0.6.15-1
+- Initial package
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+++ b/sources
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+aa91a5cfcf82f7ab5fc36a9be4a3254c  rosinstall-0.6.19.tar.bz2