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+Summary: A utility which maintains a system's symbolic links.
+Name: symlinks
+Version: 1.2
+Release: 18
+Group: Applications/System
+Copyright: distributable
+Source: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: symlinks-1.2-nostatic.patch
+Patch1: symlinks-1.2-fixman.patch
+Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.  Symlinks
+checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point
+to nonexistent files.  Symlinks can also automatically convert
+absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.
+
+Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining
+symlinks on your system.
+
+%prep
+%setup
+%patch -p1 -b .nostatic
+%patch1 -p1 -b .fixman
+
+%build
+make
+
+%install
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8
+install -s -m 755 symlinks $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}
+install -m 644 symlinks.8 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/symlinks
+%{_mandir}/man8/symlinks.8*
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- rebuilt
+
+* Wed Dec 11 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> 1.2-17
+- rebuild on all arches
+
+* Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- automated rebuild
+
+* Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- automated rebuild
+
+* Wed Jan 09 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
+- automated rebuild
+
+* Sun Jun 24 2001 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
+- Bump release + rebuild.
+
+* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
+- automatic rebuild
+
+* Tue Jun 13 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- FHS paths
+
+* Tue May 30 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- fix up help output (#10236)
+
+* Thu Feb 10 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- do not link statically
+
+* Mon Feb 07 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- rebuild to gzip man page
+
+* Mon Oct 04 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
+- rebuild against the latest glibc in the sparc tree
+
+* Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> 
+- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 5)
+
+* Wed Feb 24 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- Injected new description and group.
+
+* Fri Dec 18 1998 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- bumped spec number for initial rh 6.0 build
+
+* Mon Apr 27 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
+- translations modified for de, fr, tr
+
+* Mon Oct 20 1997 Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>
+- changed build root to /var/tmp, not /var/lib
+- updated to version 1.2
+
+* Wed Jul 09 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- built against glibc
+- build-rooted