diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e69de29..15bc0fe 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
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+c-ares-1.2.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/c-ares.spec b/c-ares.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae7db0b
--- /dev/null
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+Summary: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
+Name: c-ares
+Version: 1.2.1
+Release: 2
+License: MIT
+Group: System Environment/Libraries
+URL: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/
+Source0: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/c-ares-1.2.1.tar.gz
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+%description
+c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves 
+asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written 
+by Greg Hudson at MIT.
+
+%package devel
+Summary: Development files for c-ares
+Group: Development/Libraries
+Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to
+compile applications or shared objects that use c-ares.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure --enable-shared
+%{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libcares.la
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-, root, root)
+%doc README README.cares CHANGES NEWS
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
+%{_includedir}/ares.h
+%{_includedir}/ares_version.h
+%{_libdir}/libcares.a
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+%{_mandir}/man3/ares_*
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Apr 22 2005 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.2.1-2
+- fix license (MIT, not LGPL)
+- get rid of libcares.la
+
+* Fri Apr 22 2005 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 1.2.1-1
+- initial package creation
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..889a5d7 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8269643c78a02a1745e24fb4e2367ab0  c-ares-1.2.1.tar.gz