diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.gitignore
similarity index 100%
rename from .cvsignore
rename to .gitignore
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index b0fc9f0..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: libnova
-# $Id$
-NAME := libnova
-SPECFILE = $(firstword $(wildcard *.spec))
-
-define find-makefile-common
-for d in common ../common ../../common ; do if [ -f $$d/Makefile.common ] ; then if [ -f $$d/CVS/Root -a -w $$/Makefile.common ] ; then cd $$d ; cvs -Q update ; fi ; echo "$$d/Makefile.common" ; break ; fi ; done
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(find-makefile-common))
-
-ifeq ($(MAKEFILE_COMMON),)
-# attept a checkout
-define checkout-makefile-common
-test -f CVS/Root && { cvs -Q -d $$(cat CVS/Root) checkout common && echo "common/Makefile.common" ; } || { echo "ERROR: I can't figure out how to checkout the 'common' module." ; exit -1 ; } >&2
-endef
-
-MAKEFILE_COMMON := $(shell $(checkout-makefile-common))
-endif
-
-include $(MAKEFILE_COMMON)
diff --git a/libnova.spec b/libnova.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d56dd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libnova.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+Name:		libnova
+Version:	0.12.1
+Release:	2%{?dist}
+Summary:	Libnova is a general purpose astronomy & astrodynamics library
+Group:		Development/Libraries
+License:	LGPLv2+
+URL:		http://sourceforge.net/projects/libnova/
+Source0:	http://downloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+%description
+Libnova is a general purpose, double precision, celestial mechanics, 
+astrometry and astrodynamics library
+
+%package devel
+Summary:	Development files for libnova
+Group:		Development/Libraries
+Requires:	%{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+Contains library and header files for libnova
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+%build
+%configure --disable-static
+make CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"  %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc ChangeLog README AUTHORS NEWS COPYING
+%{_libdir}/libnova-0.12.so.1.0.0
+%{_libdir}/libnova-0.12.so.1
+%{_bindir}/libnovaconfig
+
+%files devel
+%doc COPYING examples/*.c
+%{_includedir}/libnova
+%{_libdir}/libnova.so
+
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Jan 12 2007 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@redhat.com> - 0.12.1-2
+- Made changes to the Groups
+
+* Mon Jan 07 2007 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@redhat.com> - 0.12.1-1
+- Made small changes to make it more complaint with fedora packaging standards
+
+* Thu Jan 04 2007 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@redhat.com> - 0.12.1-0
+- Initial version.
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..378990e 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8f4c6860aa627c5d0694b8bb5699fe7f  libnova-0.12.1.tar.gz