diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..757104b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/sextractor-2.28.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index f627a18..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Makefile for source rpm: sextractor
-# $Id$
-NAME := sextractor
-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/sextractor-format-sec.patch b/sextractor-format-sec.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99dcead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sextractor-format-sec.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+diff -ur sextractor-2.19.5/src/catout.c sextractor-2.19.5.prep/src/catout.c
+--- sextractor-2.19.5/src/catout.c	2013-09-12 14:35:37.000000000 +0200
++++ sextractor-2.19.5.prep/src/catout.c	2014-03-26 18:25:06.390874672 +0100
+@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@
+       break;
+ 
+     case ASCII_SKYCAT:
+-      fprintf(ascfile, skycattail);
++      fprintf(ascfile, "%s", skycattail);
+       if (!prefs.pipe_flag)
+         fclose(ascfile);
+       break;
+diff -ur sextractor-2.19.5/src/xml.c sextractor-2.19.5.prep/src/xml.c
+--- sextractor-2.19.5/src/xml.c	2013-04-27 15:22:23.000000000 +0200
++++ sextractor-2.19.5.prep/src/xml.c	2014-03-26 18:29:36.122059320 +0100
+@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
+ 		name, ucd);
+       break;
+     case P_STRING:
+-      sprintf(value, (char *)key[i].ptr);
++      sprintf(value, "%s", (char *)key[i].ptr);
+       fprintf(file, "   <PARAM name=\"%s\" datatype=\"char\" arraysize=\"*\""
+ 	" ucd=\"%s\" value=\"%s\"/>\n",
+ 	name, ucd, *value? value: " ");
+@@ -705,13 +705,13 @@
+       n = *(key[i].nlistptr);
+       if (n)
+         {
+-        sprintf(value, ((char **)key[i].ptr)[0]);
++        sprintf(value, "%s", ((char **)key[i].ptr)[0]);
+         fprintf(file, "   <PARAM name=\"%s\" datatype=\"char\""
+ 		" arraysize=\"*\" ucd=\"%s\" value=\"%s",
+ 		name, ucd, *value? value: " ");
+         for (j=1; j<n; j++)
+           {
+-          sprintf(value, ((char **)key[i].ptr)[j]);
++          sprintf(value, "%s", ((char **)key[i].ptr)[j]);
+           fprintf(file, ",%s", *value? value: " ");
+           }
+         fprintf(file, "\"/>\n");
+@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@
+ 		name, ucd);
+       break;
+     case P_KEY:
+-      sprintf(value, key[i].keylist[*((int *)key[i].ptr)]);
++      sprintf(value, "%s", key[i].keylist[*((int *)key[i].ptr)]);
+       fprintf(file, "   <PARAM name=\"%s\" datatype=\"char\" arraysize=\"*\""
+ 	" ucd=\"%s\" value=\"%s\"/>\n",
+ 	name, ucd, value);
+@@ -731,13 +731,13 @@
+       n = *(key[i].nlistptr);
+       if (n)
+         {
+-        sprintf(value, key[i].keylist[((int *)key[i].ptr)[0]]);
++        sprintf(value, "%s", key[i].keylist[((int *)key[i].ptr)[0]]);
+         fprintf(file, "   <PARAM name=\"%s\" datatype=\"char\""
+ 		" arraysize=\"*\" ucd=\"%s\" value=\"%s",
+ 		name, ucd, value);
+         for (j=1; j<n; j++)
+           {
+-          sprintf(value, key[i].keylist[((int *)key[i].ptr)[j]]);
++          sprintf(value, "%s", key[i].keylist[((int *)key[i].ptr)[j]]);
+           fprintf(file, ",%s", value);
+           }
+         fprintf(file, "\"/>\n");
diff --git a/sextractor.spec b/sextractor.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77b33e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sextractor.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+Name: sextractor
+Version: 2.28.2
+Release: %autorelease
+Summary: Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images
+
+# Automatically converted from old format: GPLv3+ - review is highly recommended.
+License: GPL-3.0-or-later
+URL: http://astromatic.iap.fr/software/%{name}
+Source0: https://github.com/astromatic/%{name}/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: sextractor-format-sec.patch
+
+BuildRequires: make
+BuildRequires: gcc
+BuildRequires: automake autoconf libtool
+BuildRequires: fftw-devel >= 3.1
+BuildRequires: openblas-devel
+BuildRequires: cfitsio-devel
+
+%description
+SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an 
+astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards 
+reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather 
+well on moderately crowded star fields.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch -P0 -p1
+sh ./autogen.sh
+
+%build
+%configure --enable-openblas
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}
+install -m 644 -p config/*.conv %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}
+install -m 644 -p config/default.nnw %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}
+
+%files
+%doc AUTHORS BUGS COPYRIGHT HISTORY README.md THANKS config/default.sex config/default.param config/README
+%license LICENSE
+%{_bindir}/*
+%{_mandir}/man1/*
+%{_mandir}/manx/*
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/
+
+%changelog
+%autochangelog
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..32e1aac 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SHA512 (sextractor-2.28.2.tar.gz) = f54b9e69944e582c68769c0d01534fc437f03fa5fc9dcb59bc680baed429983ebaa4c2422570b0f424b25c6c44cdf54a6587819ab2bc524aa33ed5c9f2595e62