diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e69de29..8d5d754 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+boto-0.9b.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-boto-0.9b-python23.patch b/python-boto-0.9b-python23.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae4ff60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-boto-0.9b-python23.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Patch by Robert Scheck <robert@fedoraproject.org> which makes boto >= 0.9b working
+by using the older Python 2.3, that doesn't support the non-decorator syntax, which
+is used at @staticmethod.
+
+--- boto-0.9b/boto/mturk/connection.py		2007-06-04 23:19:27.000000000 +0200
++++ boto-0.9b/boto/mturk/connection.py.python23	2007-08-30 12:53:24.000000000 +0200
+@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@
+         else:
+             raise EC2ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body)
+     
+-    @staticmethod
+     def get_keywords_as_string(keywords):
+         """
+         Returns a comma+space-separated string of keywords from either a list or a string
+@@ -185,8 +184,8 @@
+         else:
+             raise TypeError("keywords argument must be a string or a list of strings; got a %s" % type(keywords))
+         return final_keywords
++    get_keywords_as_string = staticmethod(get_keywords_as_string)
+     
+-    @staticmethod
+     def get_price_as_price(reward):
+         """
+         Returns a Price data structure from either a float or a Price
+@@ -196,3 +195,4 @@
+         else:
+             final_price = Price(reward)
+         return final_price
++    get_price_as_price = staticmethod(get_price_as_price)
diff --git a/python-boto.spec b/python-boto.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bda0c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-boto.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+%{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
+%define pkgname boto
+
+Summary:	A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
+Name:		python-boto
+Version:	0.9b
+Release:	1%{?dist}
+License:	MIT
+Group:		Development/Languages
+URL:		http://code.google.com/p/%{pkgname}/
+Source:		http://boto.googlecode.com/files/%{pkgname}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch:		python-boto-0.9b-python23.patch
+BuildRequires:	python-devel >= 2.3
+BuildArch:	noarch
+BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+%description
+Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
+It supports S3 (Simple Storage Service), SQS (Simple Queue Service) via
+the REST API's provided by those services and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
+via the Query API. The goal of boto is to provide a very simple, easy to
+use, lightweight wrapper around the Amazon services.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{pkgname}-%{version}
+%patch -p1 -b .python23
+
+%build
+%{__python} setup.py build
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+# Remove all test scripts
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT{%{_bindir},%{python_sitelib}/tests}
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc README
+%{python_sitelib}/%{pkgname}/
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Aug 30 2007 Robert Scheck <robert@fedoraproject.org> 0.9b-1
+- Upgrade to 0.9b
+- Initial spec file for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..5cbadea 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+b7591fd2515dcd75fd01095473381c87  boto-0.9b.tar.gz