diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000..e505e30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+xmmsctrl-1.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package b/dead.package
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index e8a26b2..0000000
--- a/dead.package
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Retired due to lack of maintainer interest
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0774f3e61cfc89c1fd3f0526c48b35db  xmmsctrl-1.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch b/xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..046f422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -rupN old/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile new/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile
+--- old/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile	2004-04-02 08:00:12.000000000 -0500
++++ new/xmmsctrl-1.8/Makefile	2008-09-23 00:48:36.000000000 -0400
+@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ all : $(TARGET) HELP
+ 
+ $(TARGET) : xmmsctrl.c removefile.c
+ 	$(CC) -o $(TARGET) xmmsctrl.c removefile.c $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
+-	strip xmmsctrl
+ 
+ HELP : xmmsctrl
+ 	./xmmsctrl > HELP || true
diff --git a/xmmsctrl.spec b/xmmsctrl.spec
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+++ b/xmmsctrl.spec
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+Summary: Command line control utility for xmms
+Name: xmmsctrl
+Version: 1.8
+Release: 4%{?dist}
+URL: http://www.docs.uu.se/~adavid
+Source0: http://user.it.uu.se/~adavid/utils/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: xmmsctrl-no-strip.patch
+License: GPLv2
+Group: Applications/Multimedia
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+Requires: xmms
+BuildRequires: xmms-devel
+
+%description
+xmmsctrl is a small utility to control xmms from the command line. Its
+goal is to be used coupled with sh to test xmms state and perform an
+appropriate action, e.g. if playing then pause else play. The interest
+of this is to bind keys in a window manager to have control over xmms
+with keys that do play/next/pause, prev, control sound...
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch0 -p2 -b .nostrip
+chmod 0644 samples/*
+
+%build
+make %{?_smp_mflags} WARN="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}"
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/%{_bindir}
+install -m 755  %{name} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/%{_bindir}
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc Changelog README HELP samples
+%{_bindir}/xmmsctrl
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Sep 28 2008 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri[AT]yahoo[DOT]com> - 1.8-4
+- Changed the type of RPM_OPT_FLAGS from CFLAGS to WARN
+
+* Sat Sep 27 2008 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri[AT]yahoo[DOT]com> - 1.8-3
+- Added DistTag
+- Removed ExclusiveArch
+- Changed 0444 file permissions to 0644
+- Changed %%defattr to (-,root,root,-)
+- Honored Fedora specific compilation flags
+- Support parallel make
+
+* Mon Sep 22 2008 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri[AT]yahoo[DOT]com> - 1.8-2
+- Repack for Fedora
+- Don't strip the binary patch
+
+* Mon Feb 18 2002 Jan IVEN <jan.iven@cern.ch> - 1.8-1
+- Initial build.
+
+