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+%define name colab
+%define version 2.0a1
+%define unmangled_version 2.0a1
+%define release 1
+%define buildvenv /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}
+
+Summary: Collaboration platform for communities
+Name: %{name}
+Version: %{version}
+Release: %{release}
+Source0: %{name}-%{unmangled_version}.tar.gz
+License: GPLv2
+Group: Development/Tools
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot
+Prefix: %{_prefix}
+Vendor: Sergio Oliveira <sergio@tracy.com.br>
+Url: https://github.com/colab-community/colab
+BuildArch: noarch
+BuildRequires: colab-deps, python-virtualenv
+Requires: colab-deps, solr, mailman-api
+
+%description
+Integrated software development platform.
+
+%prep
+%setup -n %{name}-%{unmangled_version} -n %{name}-%{unmangled_version}
+
+%build
+# install colab into virtualenv to make sure dependencies are OK
+rm -rf %{buildvenv}
+cp -r /usr/lib/colab %{buildvenv}
+PATH=%{buildvenv}/bin:$PATH pip install --no-index .
+virtualenv --relocatable %{buildvenv}
+
+# cleanup virtualenv
+rpm -ql colab-deps | sed '/^\/usr\/lib\/colab\// !d; s#/usr/lib/colab/##' > cleanup.list
+while read f; do
+  if [ -f "%{buildvenv}/$f" ]; then
+    rm -f "%{buildvenv}/$f"
+  fi
+done < cleanup.list
+rm -f cleanup.list
+find %{buildvenv} -type d -empty -delete
+
+%install
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/colab
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/lib
+
+# install virtualenv
+rm -rf %{buildroot}/usr/lib/colab
+cp -r %{buildvenv} %{buildroot}/usr/lib/colab
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}
+cat > %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/colab-admin <<EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ "$USER" = colab ]; then
+  exec /usr/lib/colab/bin/colab-admin "\$@"
+else
+  exec sudo -u colab /usr/lib/colab/bin/colab-admin "\$@"
+fi
+EOF
+chmod +x %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/colab-admin
+
+# install initscript
+install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}/lib/systemd/system
+install -m 0644 misc/lib/systemd/system/colab.service %{buildroot}/lib/systemd/system
+# install crontab
+install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}/etc/cron.d
+install -m 0644 misc/etc/cron.d/colab %{buildroot}/etc/cron.d
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+rm -rf %{buildvenv}
+
+%files
+/usr/lib/colab
+%{_bindir}/*
+/etc/cron.d/colab
+/lib/systemd/system/colab.service
+
+%post
+groupadd colab || true
+if ! id colab; then
+  useradd --system --gid colab  --home-dir /usr/lib/colab --no-create-home colab
+fi
+
+# only applies if there is a local PostgreSQL server
+if [ -x /usr/bin/postgres ]; then
+
+  # start/enable the service
+  postgresql-setup initdb || true
+  systemctl start postgresql
+  systemctl enable postgresql
+
+  if [ "$(sudo -u postgres -i psql --quiet --tuples-only -c "select count(*) from pg_user where usename = 'colab';")" -eq 0 ]; then
+    # create user
+    sudo -u postgres -i createuser colab
+  fi
+
+  if [ "$(sudo -u postgres -i psql --quiet --tuples-only -c "select count(1) from pg_database where datname = 'colab';")" -eq 0 ]; then
+    # create database
+    sudo -u postgres -i createdb --owner=colab colab
+  fi
+
+  mkdir -p /etc/colab
+
+  if [ ! -f /etc/colab/settings.yaml ]; then
+    SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32)
+    cat > /etc/colab/settings.yaml <<EOF
+## Set to false in production
+DEBUG: true
+TEMPLATE_DEBUG: true
+
+## System admins
+ADMINS: &admin
+  -
+    - John Foo
+    - john@example.com
+  -
+    - Mary Bar
+    - mary@example.com
+
+MANAGERS: *admin
+
+COLAB_FROM_ADDRESS: '"Colab" <noreply@example.com>'
+SERVER_EMAIL: '"Colab" <noreply@example.com>'
+
+EMAIL_HOST: localhost
+EMAIL_PORT: 25
+EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX: '[colab]'
+
+SECRET_KEY: '$SECRET_KEY'
+
+SITE_URL: 'http://localhost:8000/'
+BROWSERID_AUDIENCES:
+  - http://localhost:8000
+#  - http://example.com
+#  - https://example.org
+#  - http://example.net
+
+ALLOWED_HOSTS:
+  - localhost
+#  - example.com
+#  - example.org
+#  - example.net
+
+## Disable indexing
+ROBOTS_NOINDEX: false
+EOF
+    chown root:colab /etc/colab/settings.yaml
+    chmod 0640 /etc/colab/settings.yaml
+  fi
+
+  mkdir -p /etc/colab/settings.d
+
+  if [ ! -f /etc/colab/settings.d/00-database.yaml ]; then
+    cat > /etc/colab/settings.d/00-database.yaml <<EOF
+DATABASES:
+  default:
+    ENGINE: django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2
+    NAME: colab
+    USER: colab
+EOF
+    chown root:colab /etc/colab/settings.d/00-database.yaml
+    chmod 0640 /etc/colab/settings.d/00-database.yaml
+  fi
+
+fi
+
+if [ -f /etc/colab/settings.yaml ]; then
+  colab-admin migrate
+fi
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