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 6b7cfc1..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: python-chardet
-# $Id$
-NAME := python-chardet
-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/python-chardet.spec b/python-chardet.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16f9be5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-chardet.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# sitelib for noarch packages, sitearch for others (remove the unneeded one)
+%{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
+%{!?python_sitearch: %define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
+
+Name:           python-chardet
+Version:        1.0.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Character encoding auto-detection in Python
+
+Group:          Development/Languages
+License:        LGPLv2
+URL:            http://chardet.feedparser.org
+Source0:        http://chardet.feedparser.org/download/chardet-%{version}.tgz
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  python-devel, python-setuptools
+
+%description
+Character encoding auto-detection in Python. As 
+smart as your browser. Open source.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n chardet-%{version}
+
+
+
+%build
+# Remove CFLAGS=... for noarch packages (unneeded)
+%{__python} setup.py build
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+chmod -x COPYING
+ 
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc COPYING
+# For noarch packages: sitelib
+%{python_sitelib}/*
+
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Aug 04 2008 Kushal Das <kushal@fedoraproject.org> 1.0.1-1
+- Initial release
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..371cedf 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+f8c510a6fac300fe0ac9a0c24a76a7ba  chardet-1.0.1.tgz