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+Name:           carbonate
+Version:        1.1.5
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Utilities for managing graphite clusters
+License:        MIT
+URL:            https://github.com/graphite-project/carbonate
+Source0:        https://github.com/graphite-project/carbonate/archive/%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  python2-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-carbon
+BuildRequires:  python-mock
+BuildRequires:  python-nose
+BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
+Requires:       python-carbon
+Requires:       python-setuptools
+
+
+%description
+Graphite clusters are pretty cool. Here are some primitive tools to help you 
+manage your graphite clusters.
+All of the tools support two common arguments; the path to a config file, and 
+the name of the cluster. Using these tools alongside a config file that 
+describes your graphite clusters you can build up scripts to manage your 
+metrics. Some of the tools could easily be replaced with one-liners in shell, 
+but exist here for convenience and readability. The goal is to provide fast, 
+predictable utilities that can easily be composed into more advanced tooling.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -qn %{name}-%{version}
+rm -rf *.egg-info
+# remove shebang, file should not be called from commandline
+# https://github.com/jssjr/carbonate/pull/55
+sed -i '/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python/d' carbonate/aggregation.py
+
+
+%build
+%{__python2} setup.py build
+
+
+%install
+%{__python2} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
+# install the example config
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}
+cp -p conf/carbonate.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}
+# whisper-fill is provided by python-whisper
+rm %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/whisper-fill
+
+
+%check
+%{_bindir}/nosetests -v
+
+
+%files
+%{!?_licensedir:%global license %%doc}
+%license LICENSE
+%doc CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md README.md
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/carbonate.conf
+%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}
+%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}-%{version}-py2.?.egg-info
+%{_bindir}/carbon-hosts
+%{_bindir}/carbon-list
+%{_bindir}/carbon-lookup
+%{_bindir}/carbon-path
+%{_bindir}/carbon-sieve
+%{_bindir}/carbon-sync
+%{_bindir}/carbon-stale
+%{_bindir}/whisper-aggregate
+
+
+%changelog