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+This package was retired on 2012-08-06 due to no active maintainers for the package.
diff --git a/rubygem-archivist.spec b/rubygem-archivist.spec
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-# Generated from archivist-1.0.5.1.gem by gem2rpm -*- rpm-spec -*-
-%global gem_name archivist
-
-%global rubyabi 1.9.1
-
-Summary: A rails 3 model archiving system based on acts_as_archive
-Name: rubygem-%{gem_name}
-Version: 1.0.5.1
-Release: 5%{?dist}
-Group: Development/Languages
-License: MIT
-URL: http://github.com/tpickett66/archivist
-Source0: http://rubygems.org/gems/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem
-Requires: ruby(abi) = %{rubyabi}
-Requires: ruby(rubygems) 
-Requires: rubygem(activerecord) => 3.0.1
-Requires: rubygem(activerecord) < 3.1
-BuildRequires: ruby(abi) = %{rubyabi}
-BuildRequires: rubygems-devel
-BuildArch: noarch
-Provides: rubygem(%{gem_name}) = %{version}
-
-%description
-This is a functional replacement for acts_as_archive in
-rails 3 applications, the only functionality that is not
-duplicated is the migration from acts_as_paranoid
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -c -T
-mkdir -p .%{gem_dir}
-gem install --local --install-dir .%{gem_dir} \
-            -V --force %{SOURCE0}
-
-%build
-
-%install
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{gem_dir}
-cp -a .%{gem_dir}/* \
-        %{buildroot}%{gem_dir}/
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%files
-%dir %{gem_instdir}
-%{gem_libdir}
-%{gem_instdir}/MIT-LICENSE
-%doc %{gem_docdir}
-%doc %{gem_instdir}/README.md
-%{gem_cache}
-%{gem_spec}
-
-%changelog
-* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.5.1-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 02 2012 Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> - 1.0.5.1-4
-- Rebuilt for Ruby 1.9.3.
-
-* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.5.1-3
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Sep 01 2011 Maros Zatko <mzatko@redhat.com> - 1.0.5.1-2
-- Added %doc, removed shoulda dep
-
-* Thu Sep 01 2011 Maros Zatko <mzatko@redhat.com> - 1.0.5.1-1
-- Initial package
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-223f8447ff6156717af211a52653ef3f  archivist-1.0.5.1.gem