diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/msgpack-python-0.1.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-msgpack.spec b/python-msgpack.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f961e27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-msgpack.spec
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+%if ! (0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 5)
+%{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")}
+%endif
+
+%global srcname msgpack
+
+Name:           python-%{srcname}
+Version:        0.1.9
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        A Python MessagePack (de)serializer
+
+Group:          Development/Languages
+License:        ASL 2.0
+URL:            http://pypi.python.org/pypi/msgpack-python/
+Source0:        http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/%{srcname}-python/%{srcname}-python-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+
+
+BuildRequires:  python-devel
+BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
+#BuildRequires:  python-nose
+
+# We don't want to provide private python extension libs
+%{?filter_setup:
+%filter_provides_in %{python_sitearch}/.*\.so$
+%filter_setup
+}
+
+
+%description
+MessagePack is a binary-based efficient data interchange format that is
+focused on high performance. It is like JSON, but very fast and small.
+This is a Python (de)serializer for MessagePack.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{srcname}-python-%{version}
+
+
+%build
+%{__python} setup.py build
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+%{__python} setup.py install --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
+
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+
+##%check
+##PYTHONPATH="%{buildroot}%{python_sitearch}" nosetests -w test
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc COPYING README
+%{python_sitearch}/%{srcname}/
+%{python_sitearch}/%{srcname}*.egg-info
+
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Jun 24 2011 Fabian Affolter <fabian@bernewireless.net> - 0.1.9-2
+- Tests are failing, they are not active at the moment
+- Filtering added
+
+* Sat Mar 26 2011 Fabian Affolter <fabian@bernewireless.net> - 0.1.9-1
+- Initial package
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..d65e024 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fea360812fd4bd485c07b03239f1ddd0  msgpack-python-0.1.9.tar.gz