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+Summary: ModSecurity module for Apache HTTP Server
+Name: mod_security
+Version: 2.9.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+License: ASL 2.0
+URL: http://www.modsecurity.org/
+Group: System Environment/Daemons
+Source: http://www.modsecurity.org/download/modsecurity-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+Requires: httpd httpd-mmn = %([ -a %{_includedir}/httpd/.mmn ] && cat %{_includedir}/httpd/.mmn || echo missing)
+BuildRequires: httpd-devel libxml2-devel pcre-devel curl-devel lua-devel
+
+%description
+ModSecurity: Open Source Web Application Firewall
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n modsecurity-%{version}
+
+%build
+find doc -type f -exec chmod -x {} \;
+./autogen.sh
+%configure
+make %{_smp_mflags}
+
+%install
+[ "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}
+
+%clean
+[ "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr (-,root,root)
+%doc CHANGES LICENSE README.* modsecurity* doc
+%{_libdir}/httpd/modules/mod_security2.so
+%{_bindir}/mlogc
+%{_bindir}/mlogc-batch-load.pl
+%{_bindir}/rules-updater.pl
+/usr/lib/mod_security2.so
+
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Jan 12 2016 Antony Hutchison <antony@hutchisontechnical.co.uk> - 2.9.0-1
+- initial build of RPM