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+2016-05-19: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for
+more than six weeks.
+
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-529605c4348d4a7352f9bdb54267923c  xdrfile-1.1.tar.gz
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-Name:		xdrfile
-Version:	1.1
-Release:	2%{?dist}
-Summary:	A small C-library for reading and writing GROMACS trr and xtc files
-Group:		Applications/Engineering
-License:	LGPLv3+
-URL:		http://oldwiki.gromacs.org/index.php/XTC_Library
-Source0:	ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/pub/contrib/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:	%(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
-
-
-%description
-A small C-library for reading and writing trr and xtc files. The library is
-lightweight (no dependencies, portable) and can be incorporated in other
-software, because it is being distributed under the BSD license. The library
-also contains one program trr2xtc which does what you would expect, and the
-other way around.
-
-%package devel
-Summary:	Development library and headers for xdrfile
-Group:		Development/Libraries
-Requires:	%{name} = %{version}-%{release}
-
-%description devel
-This package contains development headers and libraries for xdrfile.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}b
-[ -s ChangeLog ] && exit 1 # exit if file has non-zero size
-
-%build
-%configure --enable-shared --disable-static
-# Get rid of rpath
-sed -i 's|^hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=.*|hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=""|g' libtool
-sed -i 's|^runpath_var=LD_RUN_PATH|runpath_var=DIE_RPATH_DIE|g' libtool
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} INSTALL="install -p"
-
-# Remove .la files
-rm %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/*.la
-
-%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README 
-%{_libdir}/*.so.*
-%{_bindir}/*
-
-%files devel
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%{_libdir}/*.so
-%{_includedir}/%{name}/
-
-%changelog
-* Sat Jun 13 2009 Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1-2
-- Conserve timestamps during install, fix URL & Source0.
-
-* Mon May 18 2009 Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1-1
-- Update to 1.1 that fixes licensing and other issues.
-
-* Wed Apr 08 2009 Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0-1
-- First release.