diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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+halibut-20100504.tar.bz2
diff --git a/halibut.spec b/halibut.spec
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+%define svndate 20100504
+%define svnver 8934
+
+Name:		halibut
+Summary:	TeX-like software manual tool
+Version:	1.0
+Release:	2.%{svndate}svn%{svnver}%{?dist}
+License:	MIT
+Group:		Applications/Text
+URL:		http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut.html
+#Source0:	http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+# The source for this package was pulled from upstream's vcs.  Use the
+# following commands to generate the tarball:
+#  svn export -r %{svnver} svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/halibut halibut-%{svndate}
+#  pushd halibut-%{svndate}
+#  svn export -r %{svnver} svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/charset
+#  popd
+#  tar -cjvf halibut-%{svndate}.tar.bz2 halibut-%{svndate}
+Source0:	%{name}-%{svndate}.tar.bz2
+
+%description
+Halibut is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for
+writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and
+outputs a variety of formats, planned to include text, HTML, Texinfo,
+Windows Help, Windows HTMLHelp, PostScript and PDF. It has comprehensive
+indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within
+output documents wherever possible.
+
+%package -n vim-halibut
+Summary:	Syntax file for the halibut manual tool
+Group:		Applications/Editors
+Requires:	vim-common
+BuildArch:	noarch
+
+%description -n vim-halibut
+This package provides vim syntax support for Halibut input files (*.but).
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{name}-%{svndate}
+
+%build
+sed -i 's/CFLAGS += -g/CFLAGS += /g' Makefile
+export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+make %{?_smp_mflags} VERSION="%{version}"
+make -C doc
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+make install prefix="%{buildroot}%{_prefix}" mandir="%{buildroot}%{_mandir}" INSTALL="install -Dp"
+install -d  html
+install -pm 0644 doc/*.html html
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/vim/vimfiles/syntax
+install -pm 0644 misc/halibut.vim %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/vim/vimfiles/syntax
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc LICENCE html
+%{_bindir}/halibut
+%{_mandir}/man1/*.1*
+
+%files -n vim-halibut
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{_datadir}/vim/vimfiles/syntax/*.vim
+
+%changelog
+* Mon May 10 2010 Chen Lei <supercyper@163.com> - 1.0-2.20100504svn8934
+- merge -doc subpackage to the main package
+
+* Tue May 04 2010 Chen Lei <supercyper@163.com> - 1.0-1.20100504svn8934
+- initial rpm build
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
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+f8705a25bfd137fe7a5c0bde3523befa  halibut-20100504.tar.bz2