diff --git a/patches/.directory b/patches/.directory
deleted file mode 100644
index eefde69..0000000
--- a/patches/.directory
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[Dolphin]
-Timestamp=2010,5,12,21,50,33
-ViewMode=1
diff --git a/patches/Download di autospec-1.7.3-fix_autobuildreq_with_rpm5.patch    openmamba.txt b/patches/Download di autospec-1.7.3-fix_autobuildreq_with_rpm5.patch    openmamba.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3dc5492..0000000
--- a/patches/Download di autospec-1.7.3-fix_autobuildreq_with_rpm5.patch    openmamba.txt	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.7.3.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.7.3/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.7.3.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2011-01-09 18:13:09.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.7.3/plugins/pck-update.in	2011-03-23 19:54:56.180218040 +0100
-@@ -2366,13 +2366,13 @@
-                      if [ ! -e $solibpath -a "${solibpath:0:5}" = "/lib/" ]; then
-                         solibpath="/usr$solibpath"
-                      fi
--                     buildreq=`rpm -qf $solibpath 2>/dev/null | sed "s|\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*|\1|"`
--                     if [ ! "$buildreq" ]; then
-+                     eval buildreq=`rpm -qf $solibpath 2>/dev/null | sed "s|\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*|\1|"` 2>/dev/null
-+                     if [ ! "$buildreq" -o $? -ne 0 ]; then
-                         # let's try removing version extension in libname
-                         # (eg. liblber-2.2.so => liblber.so) 
-                         solibpath=`echo $solibpath | sed "s|-[0-9.]*\.so|.so|"`
--                        buildreq=`rpm -qf $solibpath 2>/dev/null | sed "s|\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*|\1|"`
--                        [ ! "$buildreq" ] && echo "#$req: .so link not found" >> $frequires
-+                        eval buildreq=`rpm -qf $solibpath 2>/dev/null | sed "s|\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*|\1|"` 2>/dev/null
-+                        [ ! "$buildreq" -o $? -ne 0 ] && echo "#$req: .so link not found" >> $frequires
-                      fi
-                   else
-                      echo "\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.2.2-localedir.patch b/patches/autospec-1.2.2-localedir.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bb55ff..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.2.2-localedir.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- /usr/share/autospec/plugins/pck-update.orig 2008-10-02 10:20:52.000000000 +0200
-+++ /usr/share/autospec/plugins/pck-update      2008-09-26 18:19:05.000000000 +0200
-@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
-
-          notify.note " * "$"running test"" $arg (%find_lang)..."
-          # FIXME : the test should perhaps be improved...
--         grep -q "^[ ]*[^# ]*/locale/" $specfile || continue
-+         grep -q "^[ ]*[^# ]*/share/locale/" $specfile || continue
-
-          notify.error $"\
- "$"localization files must be packaged via \`%find_lang'""${NORM}
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.13-rpmbuild_test_pass_variables.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.13-rpmbuild_test_pass_variables.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a9651e..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.13-rpmbuild_test_pass_variables.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
---- pck-update	2010-03-07 17:26:00.653388973 +0100
-+++ /usr/bin/pck-update	2010-03-07 17:25:45.000000000 +0100
-@@ -2117,12 +2117,12 @@
-          done
- 
-          local rpmbuild_opts="\
--             --define \"%_srcrpmdir $srpms_dir\" \
--             --define \"%_rpmdir $rpms_dir\" \
--             --define \"%_specdir $spec_dir\" \
--             --define \"%_sourcedir $source_dir\" \
--             --define \"%_builddir $build_dir\" \
--             --define \"%_tmppath $tmppath_dir\""
-+             --define=\"%_srcrpmdir $srpms_dir\" \
-+             --define=\"%_rpmdir $rpms_dir\" \
-+             --define=\"%_specdir $spec_dir\" \
-+             --define=\"%_sourcedir $source_dir\" \
-+             --define=\"%_builddir $build_dir\" \
-+             --define=\"%_tmppath $tmppath_dir\""
- 
-          # check if we are cross-compiling
-          [ "$BUILD_ARCH" != "$target_cpu" ] &&
-@@ -2130,20 +2130,21 @@
- 
-          [ "$cleanup" = "1" ] && rpmbuild_opts="$rpmbuild_opts --clean"
- 
-+         local rpmdefine_opts="\
-+$(for i in `seq 1 1 ${#define_list_name[*]}`; do
-+echo -n " --define=\"${define_list_name[$i-1]} ${define_list_value[$i-1]}\""
-+done)"
-+         notify.debug "rpmdefine_opts = \"$rpmdefine_opts\""
-+
-          # note: exit with error when build requirements are missing
-          notify.note "${NOTE}"$"testing out specfile""${NORM}..."
--         rpmbuild --nobuild --define "%_sourcedir $source_dir" \
--            $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE 2>&1 ||
-+         eval "\
-+rpmbuild --nobuild $rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE  $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1" ||
-                notify.error $"rpmbuild exited with error code \`$?'"
- 
-          notify.debug "define_list_name = (${define_list_name[*]})"
-          notify.debug "define_list_value = (${define_list_value[*]})"
- 
--         local rpmdefine_opts="\
--$(for i in `seq 1 1 ${#define_list_name[*]}`; do
--echo -n " --define=\"${define_list_name[$i-1]} ${define_list_value[$i-1]}\""
--done)"
--         notify.debug "rpmdefine_opts = \"$rpmdefine_opts\""
- 
-          if [ "$norpms" = 1 ]; then
-             notify.note "\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.14-add_rpm_root_option.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.14-add_rpm_root_option.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b9f6e50..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.14-add_rpm_root_option.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
---- plugins/pck-update.in	2010-03-12 19:52:44.000000000 +0100
-+++ /usr/bin/pck-update	2010-03-22 00:56:15.000000000 +0100
-@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
-  -f, --format       "$"Enable specfile autoformatting""
-  -L, --log          "$"Unable logging to file (logging dir: \`\$logging_dir')""
-  -R, --rebuild      "$"Enable rebuilding mode and settings (action 4 only)""
-+     --root         "$"Specify an alternative root directory to rpm""
- 
- "$"Operation modes"":
-  -h, --help         "$"Print this help, then exit""
-@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@
- force-update,force-build,force-install,force,\
- ignore-test:,clear,format,log,rebuild,\
- debug,quiet,colorize,help,version,\
--frontend_opts: \
-+frontend_opts:,root: \
-    -n "$me" -- "$@"`
- [ $? = 0 ] || exit 1
- 
-@@ -263,6 +264,8 @@
-          let "verbose = 0" ;;
-       -r|--colorize)
-          let "colorize = 1" ;;
-+      --root)
-+         rpm_root_opts="-r $2"; shift ;;
-       -h|--help)
-          usage 0 ;;
-       -V|--version)
-@@ -2122,11 +2125,12 @@
-              --define=\"%_specdir $spec_dir\" \
-              --define=\"%_sourcedir $source_dir\" \
-              --define=\"%_builddir $build_dir\" \
--             --define=\"%_tmppath $tmppath_dir\""
-+             --define=\"%_tmppath $tmppath_dir\" \
-+             $rpm_root_opts"
- 
-          # check if we are cross-compiling
-          [ "$BUILD_ARCH" != "$target_cpu" ] &&
--            rpmbuild_opts="--target $target_cpu"
-+            rpmbuild_opts="$rpmbuild_opts --target $target_cpu"
- 
-          [ "$cleanup" = "1" ] && rpmbuild_opts="$rpmbuild_opts --clean"
- 
-@@ -2140,7 +2144,6 @@
-          notify.note "${NOTE}"$"testing out specfile""${NORM}..."
-          eval "rpmbuild --nobuild \
- $rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1" ||
--            $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE 2>&1 ||
-                notify.error $"rpmbuild exited with error code \`$?'"
- 
-          notify.debug "define_list_name = (${define_list_name[*]})"
-@@ -2140,7 +2144,6 @@
-          notify.note "${NOTE}"$"testing out specfile""${NORM}..."
-          eval "rpmbuild --nobuild \
- $rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1" ||
--            $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE 2>&1 ||
-                notify.error $"rpmbuild exited with error code \`$?'"
- 
-          notify.debug "define_list_name = (${define_list_name[*]})"
-@@ -2362,7 +2365,7 @@
-                notify.error $"package not found"": \`$filename'"
-          done
- 
--         rpm -U --test \
-+         rpm -U --test $rpm_root_opts \
-          $(for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[*]}; do
-               echo -n "$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
- $pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm "
-@@ -3083,8 +3086,8 @@
-             else
-                [ "$rpm_install" ] || notify.error "\
- \`rpm_install': "$"unset in the configuration files"
--               notify.debug "$rpm_install $pck2install_list"
--               $rpm_install $pck2install_list ||
-+               notify.debug "$rpm_install $pck2install_list $rpm_root_opts"
-+               $rpm_install $pck2install_list $rpm_root_opts ||
-                   notify.error $"cannot install the new rpm packages"
-             fi
-          fi
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.15-libapse_sourceforge.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.15-libapse_sourceforge.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ce64091..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.15-libapse_sourceforge.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
---- autospec-1.4.15/lib/libapse.lib.in.orig	2010-01-12 22:46:27.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.15/lib/libapse.lib.in	2010-03-26 13:28:14.000000000 +0100
-@@ -397,6 +397,56 @@
-       fi
-    fi
- 
-+   # sourceforge.net, sf.net
-+
-+   local prj_name
-+
-+   if [ "$(echo $pckurl | grep "sourceforge.net\|sf.net")" ]; then
-+      notify.note $"looking at"" <${NOTE}http://sourceforge.net${NORM}>..."
-+
-+      prj_name=$(echo "$pckurl" | sed -n 's,.*/\(.*\)/.*,\1,p')
-+      [ "$prj_name" ] || notify.error $"\
-+(bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"assertion failed:"" \"\$prj_name\" != \"\""
-+
-+      curr_curl_url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/$prj_name"
-+      notify.debug "curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
-+      curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
-+
-+      let "retval = $?"
-+      case "$retval" in
-+      0) ;;
-+      7) notify.warning $"failed to connect to host" ;;
-+      *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
-+      esac
-+
-+      [ "$retval" = "0" ] &&
-+      if [ "$(sed -n "s,.*Invalid Project.*,error,pi" $fcurlout)" != \
-+           "error" ]; then
-+         [ "$src_name" ] || src_name="$specname"
-+
-+         pck_file=`grep -i -m1 "/download" $fcurlout | \
-+grep -i "$src_name" | \
-+sed -n "s,.*\"\([^\"]*\)\/download\".*,\1,pi"`
-+         notify.debug "pck_file = \"$pck_file\""
-+         [ "$src_name" ] && unset src_name
-+
-+         new_version=`echo $pck_file | sed -n "\
-+/[0-9]/!q       # return nothing if no number is found in the package name
-+s,.*/,,         # remove directory name, if any
-+s/\.[^0-9].*//  # remove trailing stuff (.tar.gz, ...)
-+/-[0-9]*/{s/.*-\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/p;q}              # <pck_name>-<pck_ver>
-+/_[0-9]*/{s/.*_\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/p;q}              # <pck_name>_<pck_ver>
-+/[^-\.][0-9]\./{s/.*[^-\.]\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/p;q}  # <pck_name><pck_ver>
-+# <pck_name> (no version, but <pck_name> can end with numbers)
-+/^[^0-9]*[0-9]*$/q"`
-+      fi
-+   fi
-+
-+   if [ "$new_version" ]; then
-+      notify.note "* "$"found version:"" \`${NOTE}$new_version${NORM}'"
-+      last_version="$new_version"
-+   fi
-+
-    # check at the other supported web sites...
- 
-    # skip perl packages to prevent name confusion; these are checked above via Source0
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.15-pass_target_before_defines.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.15-pass_target_before_defines.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index dc569ba..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.15-pass_target_before_defines.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.15.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.15/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.15.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-03-24 21:40:44.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.15/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-04-03 14:13:54.314056254 +0200
-@@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@
- 
-          # check if we are cross-compiling
-          [ "$BUILD_ARCH" != "$target_cpu" ] &&
--            rpmbuild_opts="$rpmbuild_opts --target $target_cpu"
-+            rpmbuild_opts="--target $target_cpu $rpmbuild_opts"
- 
-          [ "$cleanup" = "1" ] && rpmbuild_opts="$rpmbuild_opts --clean"
- 
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.16-dont_pass_root_to_rpmbuild.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.16-dont_pass_root_to_rpmbuild.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d044ffe..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.16-dont_pass_root_to_rpmbuild.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.16.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.16/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.16.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-05-06 14:59:25.501216204 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.16/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-05-06 15:01:13.467091646 +0200
-@@ -2137,9 +2137,6 @@
- --define=\"%_builddir $build_dir\" \
- --define=\"%_tmppath $tmppath_dir\""
- 
--         [ "$rpm_rootdir" ] &&
--            rpmbuild_opts="$rpmbuild_opts $rpm_root_opts"
--
-          # check if we are cross-compiling
-          [ "$BUILD_ARCH" != "$target_cpu" ] &&
-             rpmbuild_opts="--target $target_cpu $rpmbuild_opts"
-@@ -2155,7 +2152,7 @@
-          # note: exit with error when build requirements are missing
-          notify.note "${NOTE}"$"testing out specfile""${NORM}..."
-          eval "rpmbuild --nobuild \
--$rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1" ||
-+$rpmbuild_opts $rpm_root_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1" ||
-             notify.error $"rpmbuild exited with error code \`$?'"
- 
-          notify.debug "define_list_name = (${define_list_name[*]})"
-@@ -2199,15 +2196,15 @@
-          elif [ "$norpms" = 1 ]; then
-             notify.note "${NOTE}"$"building the srpm package""${NORM}..."
-             eval "\
--rpmbuild -bs $rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1"
-+rpmbuild -bs $rpmbuild_opts --nodeps $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1"
-          elif [ "$nosrpm" = 1 ]; then
-             notify.note "${NOTE}"$"building the rpm packages""${NORM}..."
-             eval "\
--rpmbuild -bb $rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1"
-+rpmbuild -bb $rpmbuild_opts --nodeps $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1"
-          else
-             notify.note "${NOTE}"$"building rpm and srpm packages""${NORM}..."
-             eval "\
--rpmbuild -ba $rpmbuild_opts $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1"
-+rpmbuild -ba $rpmbuild_opts --nodeps $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE $rpmdefine_opts 2>&1"
-          fi
-          [ $? -eq 0 ] ||
-             notify.error $"rpmbuild exited with error code \`$?'"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.16-pass_root_opts_to_whatprovides.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.16-pass_root_opts_to_whatprovides.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c2e0b2..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.16-pass_root_opts_to_whatprovides.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.16.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.16/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.16.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-05-06 14:57:00.523842465 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.16/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-05-06 14:58:14.009216091 +0200
-@@ -2041,9 +2041,9 @@
-          local f rpm_provided_by buildrequirements_to_install
-          for f in ${SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES[@]}; do
-             unset rpm_provided_by
--            rpm --quiet -q --whatprovides $f &>/dev/null
-+            rpm --quiet -q $rpm_root_opts --whatprovides $f &>/dev/null
-             [ $? -eq 0 ] &&
--               rpm_provided_by="$(rpm -q --whatprovides $f)"
-+               rpm_provided_by="$(rpm -q $rpm_root_opts --whatprovides $f)"
- 
-             notify.note " * "$"\
- build requirement found"": \`${NOTE}$f${NORM}' ""\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-curl_pass_netlink_opts.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.17-curl_pass_netlink_opts.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a4eef0a..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-curl_pass_netlink_opts.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.17.orig//lib/libapse.lib.in autospec-1.4.17/lib/libapse.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.17.orig//lib/libapse.lib.in	2010-04-12 23:16:34.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.17/lib/libapse.lib.in	2010-06-03 03:02:59.489016996 +0200
-@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
-       notify.note $"looking at"" <${NOTE}$curr_curl_url${NORM}> (\`${NOTE}source0${NORM}')..."
- 
-       notify.debug "curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
--      curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
-+      curl $curl_opts_netlink $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
-       let "retval = $?"
- 
-       case "$retval" in
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-fix_get_RPMS_name.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.17-fix_get_RPMS_name.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ba043db..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-fix_get_RPMS_name.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.17.orig//lib/librepository.lib.in autospec-1.4.17/lib/librepository.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.17.orig//lib/librepository.lib.in	2009-06-28 21:44:48.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.17/lib/librepository.lib.in	2010-07-01 03:46:25.369016704 +0200
-@@ -361,15 +361,15 @@
-                      sed -n "\
-                         /<a href=\"/{s|.*<a href=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*|\1|;bm;};
-                         /<A HREF=\"/{s|.*<A HREF=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*|\1|;bm;};
--                        /^$pck_name-\(svn\)\?[0-9]\+/bm;be;
--                        :m;/^$pck_name-\(svn\)\?[0-9]\+/{s,.*,$curr_arch:&,p}
-+                        /^$pck_name-[^-]*-[^-]*\.rpm/bm;be;
-+                        :m;/^$pck_name-[^-]*-[^-]*\.rpm/{s,.*,$curr_arch:&,p}
-                         :e" $flist | grep -v -- "$excludeopt"
-                   else
-                      sed -n "\
-                         /<a href=\"/{s|.*<a href=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*|\1|;bm;};
-                         /<A HREF=\"/{s|.*<A HREF=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*|\1|;bm;};
--                        /^$pck_name-\(svn\)\?[0-9]\+/bm;be;
--                        :m;/^$pck_name-\(svn\)\?[0-9]\+/{s,.*,$curr_arch:&,p}
-+                        /^$pck_name-[^-]*-[^-]*\.rpm/bm;be;
-+                        :m;/^$pck_name-[^-]*-[^-]*\.rpm/{s,.*,$curr_arch:&,p}
-                         :e" $flist
-                   fi ))
-          done
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-just_warn_if_host_fails.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.17-just_warn_if_host_fails.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ab9820d..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-just_warn_if_host_fails.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.17.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.17/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.17.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-07-01 14:21:58.741780539 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.17/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-07-01 14:23:39.985642249 +0200
-@@ -2671,9 +2671,8 @@
-          if [ "${ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]}" ]; then
-             repository.is_reachable "${ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]}"
-             [ $? -eq 0 ] ||
--             { notify.error $"\
-+               notify.warning $"\
- server unreachable"": \`${ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]}'"
--               break; }
-          else
-             notify.error $"\
- you have no read write access to url#$ftp_server_upload_num"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-rpm-whatprovides-optimize.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.17-rpm-whatprovides-optimize.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 82e384d..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-rpm-whatprovides-optimize.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- autospec/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-05-12 22:12:11.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec/plugins/pck-update	2010-05-25 16:42:42.000000000 +0200
-@@ -2040,10 +2040,8 @@
- 
-          local f rpm_provided_by buildrequirements_to_install
-          for f in ${SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES[@]}; do
--            unset rpm_provided_by
--            rpm --quiet -q $rpm_root_opts --whatprovides $f &>/dev/null
--            [ $? -eq 0 ] &&
--               rpm_provided_by="$(rpm -q $rpm_root_opts --whatprovides $f)"
-+            rpm_provided_by="$(rpm -q $rpm_root_opts --whatprovides $f)"
-+            [ $? -eq 0 ] || unset rpm_provided_by
- 
-             notify.note " * "$"\
- build requirement found"": \`${NOTE}$f${NORM}' ""\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-use_rpm_preprocessor_to_solve_vars.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.17-use_rpm_preprocessor_to_solve_vars.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f4242e2..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.17-use_rpm_preprocessor_to_solve_vars.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.17.org//lib/libspec.lib.in autospec-1.4.17/lib/libspec.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.17.org//lib/libspec.lib.in	2010-05-02 22:17:42.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.17/lib/libspec.lib.in	2010-07-02 23:06:02.245892733 +0200
-@@ -657,6 +657,18 @@
-     { # 'return' required if 'EXIT_FUNC' == 'return'
-       notify.error $"specfile not found"": \`$specfile'"; return; }
- 
-+   # use rpm --specfile --specedit to create a preprocessed specfile
-+   local specfile_preprocessed=$(mktemp -q -t libspec.XXXXXXXX) ||
-+      notify.error $"can't create temporary files"
-+
-+   local rpmdefine_opts="\
-+$(for i in `seq 1 1 ${#define_list_name[*]}`; do
-+echo -n " --define=\"${define_list_name[$i-1]} ${define_list_value[$i-1]}\""
-+done)"
-+
-+   eval "rpm -q --specfile --specedit $specfile $rpmdefine_opts >> $specfile_preprocessed" ||
-+      notify.error $"rpm exited with error code \`$?'"
-+
-    [ -r "$infofile" ] && . $infofile
- 
-     # when this library is used by external scripts this assertion always fails
-@@ -889,7 +901,7 @@
-       ;;
-       SPEC_TARGET)
-          [ "$SPEC_TARGET" ] && continue
--         [ "$SPEC_NAME"   ] || specfile.getvars -s "$specfile" SPEC_NAME
-+         [ "$SPEC_NAME"   ] || specfile.getvars -s "$specfile_preprocessed" SPEC_NAME
- 
-          local ifexpr ifexpr_level level boolexpr tok toksave filesname
-          let "ifexpr_level = 0"   # level of nested %if statements
-@@ -920,7 +932,7 @@
- 
-             case ${tok[0]} in
-             %if)
--               #ifexpr=$(rpmvars.solve "${tok2}${fromtok3}" "$specfile")
-+               #ifexpr=$(rpmvars.solve "${tok2}${fromtok3}" "$specfile_preprocessed")
-                # note: if <%var> is undefined (not present) or set to "0"
-                #       then the conditional expression is false else is true
-                let "ifexpr_level += 1"
-@@ -993,7 +1005,7 @@
-                notify.debug "\
- $FUNCNAME: %file block found (${tok[*]})[line#$linenum]"
-                filesname="$( \
--               rpmvars.solve "${tok[*]}" "$specfile" | \
-+               rpmvars.solve "${tok[*]}" "$specfile_preprocessed" | \
-                sed -n '
-                # remove "%files" and "-f file-name" option if present
-                s,%files[ \t]*,,;s,-f[ \t]\+[^ ]*[ \t]*,,;p' )"
-@@ -1006,11 +1018,11 @@
-                     filesname="$(echo $filesname | sed 's,-n[ \t]\+,,')"
-                     SPEC_TARGET=( \
- ${SPEC_TARGET[*]} \
--"$(rpmvars.solve "$filesname" "$specfile")" )
-+"$(rpmvars.solve "$filesname" "$specfile_preprocessed")" )
-                ;;
-                  *) SPEC_TARGET=(\
- ${SPEC_TARGET[*]} "$SPEC_NAME-$(\
--rpmvars.solve "$filesname" "$specfile")" )
-+rpmvars.solve "$filesname" "$specfile_preprocessed")" )
-                ;;
-                esac
-                notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: $var = ( ${SPEC_TARGET[*]} )"
-@@ -1023,7 +1035,7 @@
-                fi
-             ;;
-             esac
--         done < $specfile
-+         done < $specfile_preprocessed
-          #notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: $var = ( ${SPEC_TARGET[*]} )"
-       ;;
-       SPEC_OBSOLETES)
-@@ -1032,7 +1044,7 @@
-          # entries when no obsolete labels are found
- 
-          [ "$SPEC_OBSOLETES" ] && continue
--         [ "$SPEC_NAME" ] || specfile.getvars -s "$specfile" SPEC_NAME
-+         [ "$SPEC_NAME" ] || specfile.getvars -s "$specfile_preprocessed" SPEC_NAME
- 
-          local linenum=0
-          while read -r -a tok; do
-@@ -1062,19 +1074,19 @@
-                notify.debug "\
- $FUNCNAME: * entry found at line $linenum: \"${tok[*]}\""
-                SPEC_OBSOLETES[${#SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]}]="\
--$(rpmvars.solve "${tok[*]}" "$specfile")"
-+$(rpmvars.solve "${tok[*]}" "$specfile_preprocessed")"
- 
-                notify.debug "\
- $FUNCNAME: SPEC_OBSOLETES = ( ${SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]} )"
-             ;;
-             esac
--         done < $specfile
-+         done < $specfile_preprocessed
- 
-        # SPEC_OBSOLETES=($(sed -n "\
-        #    /^[ \t]*Obsoletes[ \t]*:/{
-        #       s,[ \t]*Obsoletes[ \t]*:[ \t]*,,
-        #       s,%[{]*name[}]*,$SPEC_NAME,;p}" \
--       #    $specfile))
-+       #    $specfile_preprocessed))
- 
-          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: $var = ( ${SPEC_OBSOLETES[*]} )"
-       ;;
-@@ -1095,7 +1107,7 @@
-          [ "$SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES" ] && continue
-          local f rpm_provided_by
-          SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES=(`sed -n \
--'/^BuildRequires/{s,BuildRequires[ \t]*:[ \t]*,,p}' $specfile | \
-+'/^BuildRequires/{s,BuildRequires[ \t]*:[ \t]*,,p}' $specfile_preprocessed | \
-            (IFS="$IFS,"; while read -a buildreqs; do
-                let "isver = 0"
-                for f in ${buildreqs[@]}; do
-@@ -1107,7 +1119,7 @@
-                      let "isver = 1"
-                   ;;
-                   *%*) # rpm variable(s) (ex. '%{__install_info}')
--                     echo "$(rpmvars.solve "$f" $specfile) "
-+                     echo "$(rpmvars.solve "$f" $specfile_preprocessed) "
-                   ;;
-                   *) echo "$f " ;;
-                   esac
-@@ -1154,6 +1166,7 @@
-       ;;
-       esac
-    done
-+   [ -e $specfile_preprocessed ] && rm -f $specfile_preprocessed
- }
- 
- 
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.4-access_private_repositories.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.4-access_private_repositories.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6efa209..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.4-access_private_repositories.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,246 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.4.orig/lib/librepository.lib.in autospec-1.4.4/lib/librepository.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.4.orig/lib/librepository.lib.in	2008-12-08 19:35:19.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.4/lib/librepository.lib.in	2008-12-31 05:19:14.000000000 +0100
-@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@
-    local ARGS
-    ARGS=`LANG=C getopt \
-       -o n:r:p:u: \
--      --long urlnum:,urllist:,proxy:,proxy-user: \
-+      --long urlnum:,urllist:,proxy:,proxy-user:,user:,urllistrw: \
-       -n "$FUNCNAME" -- "$@"`
-    [ $? = 0 ] || notify.error $"(bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"\`getopt' error"
- 
--   local i urlnum urllist proxy proxy_user
-+   local i urlnum urllist proxy proxy_user user urllistrw
- 
-    eval set -- "$ARGS"
-    while :; do
-@@ -111,6 +111,16 @@
-          proxy_user="$2"; shift
-          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: proxy_user = \"$proxy_user\""
-       ;;
-+      -l|--user)
-+         user="$2"; shift
-+         notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: user = \"$proxy_user\""
-+      ;;
-+      -w|--urllistrw)
-+         urllistrw=($2); shift
-+         for i in `seq 1 1 ${#urllistrw[*]}`; do
-+            notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: urllistrw[$(($i-1))] = ${urllistrw[$i-1]}"
-+         done
-+      ;;
-       --) shift; break ;;
-       *) notify.error $"\
- (bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"\`getopt' error: bad command \`$1'" ;;
-@@ -135,10 +145,14 @@
-    # FIXME: 'curl_opts_netlink' is an external variable
-    local curlopts="\
- -L --silent --list-only $curl_opts_netlink\
-+${user:+ --user $user} \
- ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxy_user:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user}"
- 
-    local flist currflist currurl
-    local errors=0
-+   
-+   [ "${user}" ] && urllist=(${urllistrw[*]})
-+
-    let "i = 0"
-    for currurl in ${urllist[*]}; do
-       # get the list of files from the repository
-@@ -160,6 +174,8 @@
-       #notify.debug "curl $curlopts --url $currurl/"
-       curl $curlopts --url $currurl/ -o $currflist
-       let "retval = $?"
-+
-+      notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: curl $curlopts --url $currurl/ -o $currflist"
-       notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: curl return code: $retval"
- 
-       case "$retval" in
-@@ -223,6 +239,7 @@
- #    -c,--target-cpu : set the build architecture
- #    -p,--proxy      : proxy server
- #    -u,--proxy-user : proxy user
-+#    -l,--user       : login user
- # return value:
- #    0 on success, >0 otherwise
- # example of output:
-@@ -233,13 +250,13 @@
- function repository.get_RPMS_name() {
-    ARGS=`LANG=C getopt \
-       -o a:x:c:p:u: \
--      --long archlist:,exclude:,target-cpu:,proxy:,proxy-user: \
-+      --long archlist:,exclude:,target-cpu:,proxy:,proxy-user:,user: \
-       -n "$FUNCNAME" -- "$@"`
-    [ $? = 0 ] || notify.error $"(bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"\`getopt' error"
- 
-    eval set -- "$ARGS"
- 
--   local archlist excludeopt proxy proxy_user target_cpu
-+   local archlist excludeopt proxy proxy_user user target_cpu
-    while :; do
-       case $1 in
-       -a|--archlist)
-@@ -262,6 +279,10 @@
-          proxy_user="$2"; shift
-          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: proxy_user = \"$proxy_user\""
-       ;;
-+      -l|--user)
-+         user="$2"; shift
-+         notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: user = \"$proxy_user\""
-+      ;;
-       --) shift; break ;;
-       *) notify.error $"\
- (bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"\`getopt' error" ;;
-@@ -309,6 +330,7 @@
-    # FIXME: 'curl_opts_netlink' is an external variable
-    local curlopts="\
- -L --silent --list-only $curl_opts_netlink -o $flist\
-+${user:+ --user $user} \
- ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxy_user:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user}"
- 
-    got_RPM_FILENAME=
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.4.orig/plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.4/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.4.orig/plugins/pck-update.in	2008-12-18 20:49:37.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.4/plugins/pck-update.in	2008-12-31 05:20:28.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1053,16 +1053,53 @@
-       notify.error $"can't create temporary files"
-    notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: infofile = $infofile"
- 
-+   local upload_ftp_server
-+   local upload_ftp_rpms_dir
-+   local upload_ftp_srpms_dir
-+   local upload_ftp_port
-+   local upload_ftp_user
-+   local upload_ftp_passwd
-+
-+   # select the server where the new packages will be uploaded
-+   upload_ftp_server=${ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
-+   notify.debug "upload_ftp_server = \"$upload_ftp_server\""
-+   [ "$upload_ftp_server" ] || notify.error "\
-+\`ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]': "$"unset in the configuration files"
-+
-+   # get the folder where the new rpm packages will be uploaded
-+   upload_ftp_rpms_dir=${ftp_rw_rpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
-+   notify.debug "upload_ftp_rpms_dir = \"$upload_ftp_rpms_dir\""
-+   [ "$upload_ftp_rpms_dir" ] || notify.error "\
-+\`ftp_rw_rpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]': "$"unset in the configuration files"
-+
-+   # get the folder where the new srpm package will be uploaded
-+   upload_ftp_srpms_dir=${ftp_rw_srpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
-+   notify.debug "upload_ftp_srpms_dir = \"$upload_ftp_srpms_dir\""
-+   [ "$upload_ftp_srpms_dir" ] || notify.error "\
-+\`ftp_rw_srpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]': "$"unset in the configuration files"
-+
-+   upload_ftp_port=${ftp_rw_port[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
-+   [ "$ftp_rw_user_forced" ] &&
-+      upload_ftp_user="$ftp_rw_user_forced" ||
-+      upload_ftp_user="${ftp_rw_user[$ftp_server_upload_num]}"
-+   [ "$ftp_rw_passwd_forced" ] &&
-+      upload_ftp_passwd="$ftp_rw_passwd_forced" ||
-+      upload_ftp_passwd="${ftp_rw_passwd[$ftp_server_upload_num]}"
-+
-    for step in ${steps[*]}; do
-       case $step in
-       0) notify.note "[${NOTE}step $step${NORM}] -- ${NOTE}"$"\
- check for available versions in the repositories""${NORM}"
- 
-          local srpm_pck_found=0
-+
-          if [ "$ftp_server_download_num" ]; then
-             repository.get_SRPMS_name \
-                --urllist "${ftpurl_ro_srpms[$ftp_server_download_num]}" \
-                --urlnum "$ftp_server_download_num" \
-+               --user "$upload_ftp_user:$upload_ftp_passwd" \
-+               --urllistrw "$upload_ftp_server${upload_ftp_port:+:upload_ftp_port}/\
-+$upload_ftp_srpms_dir/" \
-                --proxy "$proxy" \
-                --proxy-user "$proxy_user" \
-                "$pck_name"
-@@ -1079,9 +1116,13 @@
-             fi
-          else
-             for i in `seq 1 1 ${#ftp_rw_server[*]}`; do
-+
-                repository.get_SRPMS_name \
-                   --urllist "${ftpurl_ro_srpms[$(($i-1))]}" \
-                   --urlnum "$(($i-1))" \
-+                  ${upload_ftp_user:+ --user "$upload_ftp_user:$upload_ftp_passwd"} \
-+                  --urllistrw "$upload_ftp_server${upload_ftp_port:+:upload_ftp_port}/\
-+$upload_ftp_srpms_dir/" \
-                   --proxy "$proxy" \
-                   --proxy-user "$proxy_user" \
-                   "$pck_name"
-@@ -1113,6 +1154,9 @@
-          repository.get_SRPMS_name \
-             --urllist "${ftpurl_ro_srpms[$ftp_server_download_num]}" \
-             --urlnum "$ftp_server_download_num" \
-+            ${upload_ftp_user:+ --user "$upload_ftp_user:$upload_ftp_passwd"} \
-+            --urllistrw "$upload_ftp_server${upload_ftp_port:+:upload_ftp_port}/\
-+$upload_ftp_srpms_dir/" \
-             --proxy "$proxy" \
-             --proxy-user "$proxy_user" \
-             "$pck_name"
-@@ -1141,12 +1185,14 @@
-               cd $srpms_dir
- 
-               curl $curl_options \
-+                 ${upload_ftp_user:+ --user $upload_ftp_user:$upload_ftp_passwd} \
-                  ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxyuser:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user} \
-                  $got_SPEC_FILENAME_URL/$got_SPEC_FILENAME
-               [[ $? -eq 0 ]] &&
-                  notify.note $"got from"" \`$got_SPEC_FILENAME_URL'" ||
-                  notify.debug "\
- curl $curl_options\
-+${upload_ftp_user:+ --user $upload_ftp_user:$upload_ftp_passwd} \
- ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxyuser:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user} \
- $got_SPEC_FILENAME_URL/$got_SPEC_FILENAME: [${CRIT}FAILED${NORM}]" )
- 
-@@ -2552,6 +2598,9 @@
-          repository.get_SRPMS_name \
-             --urllist "${ftpurl_ro_srpms[$ftp_server_upload_num]}" \
-             --urlnum "$ftp_server_upload_num" \
-+            ${upload_ftp_user:+ --user "$upload_ftp_user:$upload_ftp_passwd"} \
-+            --urllistrw "$upload_ftp_server${upload_ftp_port:+:upload_ftp_port}/\
-+$upload_ftp_srpms_dir/" \
-             --proxy "$proxy" \
-             --proxy-user "$proxy_user" \
-             "$pck_name" ${SPEC_OBSOLETES[@]}
-@@ -2662,38 +2711,6 @@
-          [ "${ftp_rw_passive_mode[$ftp_server_upload_num]}" = "on" ] &&
-             ftp_opts="$ftp_opts --ftp-pasv"
- 
--         local upload_ftp_server
--         local upload_ftp_rpms_dir
--         local upload_ftp_srpms_dir
--         local upload_ftp_port
--         local upload_ftp_user
--         local upload_ftp_passwd
--
--         # select the server where the new packages will be uploaded
--         upload_ftp_server=${ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
--         notify.debug "upload_ftp_server = \"$upload_ftp_server\""
--         [ "$upload_ftp_server" ] || notify.error "\
--\`ftp_rw_server[$ftp_server_upload_num]': "$"unset in the configuration files"
--
--         # get the folder where the new rpm packages will be uploaded
--         upload_ftp_rpms_dir=${ftp_rw_rpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
--         notify.debug "upload_ftp_rpms_dir = \"$upload_ftp_rpms_dir\""
--         [ "$upload_ftp_rpms_dir" ] || notify.error "\
--\`ftp_rw_rpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]': "$"unset in the configuration files"
--
--         # get the folder where the new srpm package will be uploaded
--         upload_ftp_srpms_dir=${ftp_rw_srpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
--         notify.debug "upload_ftp_srpms_dir = \"$upload_ftp_srpms_dir\""
--         [ "$upload_ftp_srpms_dir" ] || notify.error "\
--\`ftp_rw_srpms_dir[$ftp_server_upload_num]': "$"unset in the configuration files"
--
--         upload_ftp_port=${ftp_rw_port[$ftp_server_upload_num]}
--         [ "$ftp_rw_user_forced" ] &&
--            upload_ftp_user="$ftp_rw_user_forced" ||
--            upload_ftp_user="${ftp_rw_user[$ftp_server_upload_num]}"
--         [ "$ftp_rw_passwd_forced" ] &&
--            upload_ftp_passwd="$ftp_rw_passwd_forced" ||
--            upload_ftp_passwd="${ftp_rw_passwd[$ftp_server_upload_num]}"
- 
-          notify.note "\
- ${NOTE}"$"upload the new packages to the ftp repository"" \
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.4-fix_perl_pkgs_scraping.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.4-fix_perl_pkgs_scraping.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a1e45c..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.4-fix_perl_pkgs_scraping.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.4.orig/lib/libapse.lib.in autospec-1.4.4/lib/libapse.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.4.orig/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-01-03 14:12:01.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.4/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-01-03 14:13:26.000000000 +0100
-@@ -411,62 +411,64 @@
-        last_version="$new_version"
-    fi
- 
--   # check at the other supported web sites...
--   for i in ${!apse_site_name[@]}; do
--      notify.note \
-+   # check at the other supported web sites.
-+   # Skip Perl packages to prevent name confusion; these are checked above via Source0
-+   if [ ! "$(echo $pckurl | grep "cpan.org")" ]; then
-+      for i in ${!apse_site_name[@]}; do
-+         notify.note \
- $"looking at"" <${NOTE}${apse_site_name[$i]}${NORM}>..."
- 
--      for search_name in $src_name $specname; do
--         [ "${apse_put_fields[$i]}" ] &&
--            curr_curl_url="${apse_uri[$i]}" ||
--               curr_curl_url="${apse_uri[$i]}${search_name}"
-+         for search_name in $src_name $specname; do
-+            [ "${apse_put_fields[$i]}" ] &&
-+               curr_curl_url="${apse_uri[$i]}" ||
-+                  curr_curl_url="${apse_uri[$i]}${search_name}"
- 
--         if [ "${apse_put_fields[$i]}" ]; then
--            notify.debug "\
-+            if [ "${apse_put_fields[$i]}" ]; then
-+               notify.debug "\
- curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L -F ${apse_put_fields[$i]}${search_name} \"$curr_curl_url\""
--            curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L -F \
--               ${apse_put_fields[$i]}${search_name} "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
--         else
--            notify.debug "\
-+               curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L -F \
-+                  ${apse_put_fields[$i]}${search_name} "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
-+            else
-+               notify.debug "\
- curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
--            curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
--         fi
-+               curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
-+            fi
- 
--         let "retval = $?"
--         case "$retval" in
--         0) ;;
--         6) notify.warning $"couldn't resolve host" ;;
--         7) notify.warning $"failed to connect to host" ;;
--         *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
--         esac
-+            let "retval = $?"
-+            case "$retval" in
-+            0) ;;
-+            6) notify.warning $"couldn't resolve host" ;;
-+            7) notify.warning $"failed to connect to host" ;;
-+            *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
-+            esac
- 
--         [ "$retval" = "0" ] || continue
-+            [ "$retval" = "0" ] || continue
- 
--         if [ "$(cat $fcurlout | sed -n "\
-+            if [ "$(cat $fcurlout | sed -n "\
- s,.*${apse_error_msg[$i]}.*,error,pi")" != \
--         "error" ]; then
--            current_grep="$(echo "${apse_grep[$i]}" | sed -e "s,\${search_name},${search_name},g")"
--            current_sed="$(echo "${apse_sed[$i]}" | sed -e "s,\${search_name},${search_name},g")"
--            notify.debug "\
-+            "error" ]; then
-+               current_grep="$(echo "${apse_grep[$i]}" | sed -e "s,\${search_name},${search_name},g")"
-+               current_sed="$(echo "${apse_sed[$i]}" | sed -e "s,\${search_name},${search_name},g")"
-+               notify.debug "\
- grep -i -m1 \"$current_grep\" \$fcurlout | sed -n \"$current_sed\""
--            new_version=$(grep -i -m1 "$current_grep" $fcurlout | sed -n "$current_sed")
--            if [ "$new_version" ]; then
--               notify.note "\
-+               new_version=$(grep -i -m1 "$current_grep" $fcurlout | sed -n "$current_sed")
-+               if [ "$new_version" ]; then
-+                  notify.note "\
-  * "$"found version:"" \`${NOTE}$new_version${NORM}'"
--               if [ "$last_version" ]; then
--                  notify.debug "apse.cmpversion \"$last_version\" \"$new_version\""
--                  apse.cmpversion "$last_version" "$new_version"
--                  [ $? -eq 2 ] && last_version="$new_version"
--               else
--                  last_version="$new_version"
-+                  if [ "$last_version" ]; then
-+                     notify.debug "apse.cmpversion \"$last_version\" \"$new_version\""
-+                     apse.cmpversion "$last_version" "$new_version"
-+                     [ $? -eq 2 ] && last_version="$new_version"
-+                  else
-+                     last_version="$new_version"
-+                  fi
-                fi
-             fi
--         fi
-+         done
-       done
--   done
-+   fi
- 
-    unset APSE_LAST_VERSION
--
-    if [ "$last_version" ]; then
-       APSE_LAST_VERSION="${last_version/-/.}"
-       notify.note $"\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.4-scrape_source0_dir.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.4-scrape_source0_dir.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a4a0a4..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.4-scrape_source0_dir.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.4.orig/lib/libapse.lib.in autospec-1.4.4/lib/libapse.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.4.orig/lib/libapse.lib.in	2008-12-18 23:01:10.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.4/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-01-02 13:45:55.000000000 +0100
-@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
- 
-    local ARGS
-    ARGS=`LANG=C getopt -o han:s:w:p:u: \
--      --long help,allurl,pckname:,specname:,pckurl:,proxy:,proxy-user: \
-+      --long help,allurl,pckname:,specname:,pckurl:,pckurlverbatim:,proxy:,proxy-user: \
-       -n "$FUNCNAME" -- "$@"`
-    [ $? = 0 ] || notify.error $"\
- (bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"\`getopt' error"
-@@ -253,6 +253,10 @@
-          pckurl="$2"; shift
-          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: pckurl = \"$pckurl\""
-       ;;
-+      -v|--pckurlverbatim)
-+         pckurlverbatim="$2"; shift
-+         notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: pckurlverbatim = \"$pckurlverbatim\""
-+      ;;
-       -p|--proxy)
-          proxy="$2"; shift
-          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: proxy = \"$proxy\""
-@@ -291,12 +295,11 @@
-    local curr_curl_proxy_opts="\
- ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxy_user:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user}"
- 
--   # sourceforge.net, sf.net
- 
-+   # sourceforge.net, sf.net
-    local prj_name prj_group_id
- 
-    if [ "$(echo $pckurl | grep "sourceforge.net\|sf.net")" ]; then
--      notify.note $"looking at"" <${NOTE}http://sourceforge.net${NORM}>..."
- 
-       prj_name=$(echo "$pckurl" | sed -n 's,.*/\(.*\)/.*,\1,p')
-       [ "$prj_name" ] || notify.error $"\
-@@ -364,11 +367,48 @@
-             fi
-          fi
-       fi
-+
-+   else
-+
-+      # SOURCE url based search
-+      notify.note $"looking at"" "$"source0 base directory..."
-+      local pckurldir="`dirname $pckurl`/"
-+      local pcknameverbatim=`basename $pckurlverbatim`
-+
-+      curr_curl_url="\
-+$pckurldir"
-+      notify.debug "curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
-+
-+      curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
-+      let "retval = $?"
-+      case "$retval" in
-+      0) ;;
-+      6) notify.warning $"couldn't resolve host" ;;
-+      7) notify.warning $"failed to connect to host" ;;
-+      *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
-+      esac
-+
-+      local pcknameregexp=$(echo $pcknameverbatim | sed "\
-+            s,%[{]*name[}]*,$specname,
-+	    s,%{.*}*,[^[:space:]-]*,")
-+
-+      if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-+
-+         new_version=$(\
-+grep -i "$pcknameregexp" $fcurlout | sed "\
-+            s,.*\($pcknameregexp\).*,\1,g
-+            s/\.[^0-9].*//  # remove trailing stuff (.tar.gz, ...)
-+            s/.*-\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/              # <pck_name>-<pck_ver>
-+            s/.*_\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/              # <pck_name>_<pck_ver>
-+            s/.+\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/g  # <pck_name><pck_ver>
-+            " | sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10| head -n1)
-+
-+      fi
-    fi
- 
-    if [ "$new_version" ]; then
--      notify.note "* "$"found version:"" \`${NOTE}$new_version${NORM}'"
--      last_version="$new_version"
-+       notify.note "* "$"found version:"" \`${NOTE}$new_version${NORM}'"
-+       last_version="$new_version"
-    fi
- 
-    # check at the other supported web sites...
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.4.orig/plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.4/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.4.orig/plugins/pck-update.in	2009-01-01 23:01:36.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.4/plugins/pck-update.in	2009-01-01 23:04:59.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1253,9 +1253,13 @@
-          unset SPEC_SOURCE0_PCKNAME
-          specfile.getvars SPEC_SOURCE0_PCKNAME
- 
-+         unset SPEC_SOURCE0_VERBATIM
-+         specfile.getvars --verbatim SPEC_SOURCE0
-+
-          apse.scrapeversion \
-             --pckname "$SPEC_SOURCE0_PCKNAME" \
-             --pckurl "${SPEC_SOURCE[0]}" \
-+	    --pckurlverbatim "${SPEC_SOURCE0_VERBATIM}" \
-             --specname "$SPEC_NAME" \
-             ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy} \
-             ${proxy_user:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user}
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_regexp.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_regexp.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a87d35c..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_regexp.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- autospec.conf.in.orig	2009-02-24 01:58:37.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec.conf.in	2009-02-24 01:58:49.000000000 +0100
-@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
- apse_uri[1]="http://linux.softpedia.com/progSearch"
- apse_put_fields[1]="src="
- apse_error_msg[1]="No results found"
--apse_grep[1]="<b[^<]*\${search_name} "
-+apse_grep[1]="<b[^<]*\${search_name}[^a-zA-Z]"
- apse_sed[1]="s,.*<b[^<]*\${search_name}[^<]*[ ]\([^ <]*\)</b>.*,\1,pi"
- 
- apse_site_name[2]="http://www.gnomefiles.org"
-@@ -439,14 +439,14 @@
- apse_uri[4]="http://sourcewell.berlios.de/appsearch.php?by=Importance&search="
- apse_put_fields[4]=""
- apse_error_msg[4]="No Application found"
--apse_grep[4]="appbyid.*\${search_name}.*Stable"
-+apse_grep[4]="appbyid.*\${search_name}[^a-zA-Z].*Stable"
- apse_sed[4]="s,.*<a href=\"appbyid.*\">\${search_name} \([^ <]*\)</a>.*,\1,pi"
- 
- apse_site_name[5]="http://distrowatch.com"
--apse_uri[5]="http://distrowatch.com/packages.php ?"
-+apse_uri[5]="http://distrowatch.com/packages.php?"
- apse_put_fields[5]=""
- apse_error_msg[5]="is currently being redesigned"
--apse_grep[5]="td.*\${search_name}"
-+apse_grep[5]="td.*[^a-zA-Z]\${search_name}[^a-zA-Z0-9]"
- apse_sed[5]="s,.*td><[^>]*>\([^ <]*\)<.*,\1,pi"
- 
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_source0_fix.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_source0_fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c87f48..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_source0_fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- libapse.lib.in.2	2009-02-28 19:34:40.000000000 +0100
-+++ libapse.lib.in	2009-02-28 19:34:55.000000000 +0100
-@@ -392,7 +392,8 @@
- 
-       local pcknameregexp=$(echo $pcknameverbatim | sed "\
-             s,%[{]*name[}]*,$specname,
--            s,%{.*}*,[^[:space:]-]*,")
-+            s,%[{]*version[}]*,[A-Za-z0-9._]*,
-+            s,%[{]*.*[}]*,[^[:space:]-]*,")
- 
-       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-          new_version=$(\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_source0_fix2.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_source0_fix2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index de36001..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.5-scrape_source0_fix2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- libapse.lib.in	2009-02-28 19:34:55.000000000 +0100
-+++ libapse.lib.in.new	2009-03-02 18:46:02.000000000 +0100
-@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
- s/\.[^0-9].*//          # remove trailing stuff (.tar.gz, ...)
- s/.*-\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/   # <pck_name>-<pck_ver>
- s/.*_\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/   # <pck_name>_<pck_ver>
--s/.+\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/g  # <pck_name><pck_ver>" | \
-+s/[^0-9]*\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/g  # <pck_name><pck_ver> | \
- sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10 | head -n1)
-       fi
- 
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.6-libapse_remove_sourceforge.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.6-libapse_remove_sourceforge.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f98311..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.6-libapse_remove_sourceforge.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.6.ori/lib/libapse.lib.in autospec-1.4.6/lib/libapse.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.6.ori/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-04-10 19:47:03.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.6/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-07-01 02:29:14.912684915 +0200
-@@ -294,81 +294,8 @@
-    local curr_curl_proxy_opts="\
- ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxy_user:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user}"
- 
--   # sourceforge.net, sf.net
--
--   local prj_name prj_group_id
--
--   if [ "$(echo $pckurl | grep "sourceforge.net\|sf.net")" ]; then
--      notify.note $"looking at"" <${NOTE}http://sourceforge.net${NORM}>..."
--
--      prj_name=$(echo "$pckurl" | sed -n 's,.*/\(.*\)/.*,\1,p')
--      [ "$prj_name" ] || notify.error $"\
--(bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"assertion failed:"" \"\$prj_name\" != \"\""
--
--      curr_curl_url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/$prj_name"
--      notify.debug "curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
--      curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
--
--      let "retval = $?"
--      case "$retval" in
--      0) ;;
--      6) notify.warning $"couldn't resolve host" ;;
--      7) notify.warning $"failed to connect to host" ;;
--      *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
--      esac
--
--      [ "$retval" = "0" ] &&
--      if [ "$(sed -n "s,.*Invalid Project.*,error,pi" $fcurlout)" != \
--           "error" ]; then
--         prj_group_id=$(\
--            sed -n "s,.*download\.php?group_id=\([0-9]*\).*,\1,pi" \
--               $fcurlout)
--         [ "$prj_group_id" ] || notify.error $"\
--(bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"assertion failed:"" \"\$prj_group_id\" != \"\""
--
--         curr_curl_url="\
--http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projfiles.php?group_id=$prj_group_id"
--         notify.debug "curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
--
--         curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L "$curr_curl_url" > $fcurlout
--         let "retval = $?"
--         case "$retval" in
--         0) ;;
--         6) notify.warning $"couldn't resolve host" ;;
--         7) notify.warning $"failed to connect to host" ;;
--         *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
--         esac
--
--         if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
--            for search_name in $src_name $specname; do
--               new_version=$(\
--grep -i -m1 "$search_name [^ ]* released (.*)</title>" $fcurlout | \
--sed -n "s,.*$search_name \([^ ]*\) released (.*)</title>.*,\1,pi")
--               [ "$new_version" ] && break
--            done
--
--            if [ -z "$new_version" ]; then
--               [ "$src_name" ] || src_name="$specname"
--
--               pck_file=`grep -i -m1 "Includes files: $src_name" $fcurlout | \
--sed -n "s,.*Includes files: \($src_name[-_0-9]*[^ -]*\) .*,\1,pi"`
--               notify.debug "pck_file = \"$pck_file\""
--               [ "$src_name" ] && unset src_name
--
--               new_version=`echo $pck_file | sed -n "\
--/[0-9]/!q       # return nothing if no number is found in the package name
--s,.*/,,         # remove directory name, if any
--s/\.[^0-9].*//  # remove trailing stuff (.tar.gz, ...)
--/-[0-9]*/{s/.*-\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/p;q}              # <pck_name>-<pck_ver>
--/_[0-9]*/{s/.*_\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/p;q}              # <pck_name>_<pck_ver>
--/[^-\.][0-9]\./{s/.*[^-\.]\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/p;q}  # <pck_name><pck_ver>
--# <pck_name> (no version, but <pck_name> can end with numbers)
--/^[^0-9]*[0-9]*$/q"`
--            fi
--         fi
--      fi
-    # SOURCE0 url based search (only if 'pckurl' is a valid url)
--   elif [[ "$pckurl" =~ .*://.* ]]; then
-+   if [[ "$pckurl" =~ .*://.* ]]; then
-       local pckurldir="`dirname $pckurl`/"
-       notify.debug "pckurldir = $pckurldir"
- 
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.6-relocate_RPM_dirs.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.6-relocate_RPM_dirs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a56c953..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.6-relocate_RPM_dirs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.6.orig/autospec.conf.in autospec-1.4.6/autospec.conf.in
---- autospec-1.4.6.orig/autospec.conf.in	2009-02-25 22:42:41.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.6/autospec.conf.in	2009-04-19 14:47:37.000000000 +0200
-@@ -533,8 +533,9 @@
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 
- # Directories used by the rpm tool to read and save files to
--srpms_dir=`rpm --eval %_srcrpmdir 2>/dev/null`
--rpms_dir=`rpm --eval %_rpmdir 2>/dev/null`
--spec_dir=`rpm --eval %_specdir 2>/dev/null`
--source_dir=`rpm --eval %_sourcedir 2>/dev/null`
--tmppath_dir=`rpm --eval %_tmppath 2>/dev/null`
-+srpms_dir="`rpm --eval %_srcrpmdir 2>/dev/null`"
-+rpms_dir="`rpm --eval %_rpmdir 2>/dev/null`"
-+spec_dir="`rpm --eval %_specdir 2>/dev/null`"
-+source_dir="`rpm --eval %_sourcedir 2>/dev/null`"
-+build_dir="`rpm --eval %_builddir 2>/dev/null`"
-+tmppath_dir="`rpm --eval %_tmppath 2>/dev/null`"
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.6.orig/plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.4.6/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.4.6.orig/plugins/pck-update.in	2009-02-01 22:35:33.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.6/plugins/pck-update.in	2009-04-19 14:49:05.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1181,7 +1181,10 @@
-                   $spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old
-          fi
- 
--         rpm -hiv $srpms_dir/$got_SPEC_FILENAME 2>&1 >/dev/null ||
-+         rpm -hiv \
-+             --define "%_specdir $spec_dir" \
-+             --define "%_sourcedir $source_dir" \
-+             $srpms_dir/$got_SPEC_FILENAME 2>&1 >/dev/null ||
-          notify.error $"\
- an error occurred while installing \`$got_SPEC_FILENAME'"
- 
-@@ -2106,7 +2109,13 @@
-                $sdflag "$fullURL" "$source_dir" "$totfilenum"
-          done
- 
--         local rpmbuild_opts
-+         local rpmbuild_opts="\
-+             --define \"%_srcrpmdir $srpms_dir\" \
-+             --define \"%_rpmdir $rpms_dir\" \
-+             --define \"%_specdir $spec_dir\" \
-+             --define \"%_sourcedir $source_dir\" \
-+             --define \"%_builddir $build_dir\" \
-+             --define \"%_tmppath $tmppath_dir\""
- 
-          # check if we are cross-compiling
-          [ "$BUILD_ARCH" != "$target_cpu" ] &&
-@@ -2116,7 +2125,7 @@
- 
-          # note: exit with error when build requirements are missing
-          notify.note "${NOTE}"$"testing out specfile""${NORM}..."
--         rpmbuild --nobuild $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE 2>&1 ||
-+         rpmbuild --nobuild --define "%_sourcedir $source_dir" $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE 2>&1 ||
-             notify.error $"rpmbuild exited with error code \`$?'"
- 
-          notify.debug "define_list_name = (${define_list_name[*]})"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.7-builddir_conf_default.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.7-builddir_conf_default.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 51bd7a3..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.7-builddir_conf_default.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.7/autospec.conf.in autospec-1.4.7.patched/autospec.conf.in
---- autospec-1.4.7/autospec.conf.in	2009-06-28 20:18:14.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.7.patched/autospec.conf.in	2009-07-08 21:15:25.186969362 +0200
-@@ -537,4 +537,5 @@
- rpms_dir="`rpm --eval %_rpmdir 2>/dev/null`"
- spec_dir="`rpm --eval %_specdir 2>/dev/null`"
- source_dir="`rpm --eval %_sourcedir 2>/dev/null`"
-+build_dir="`rpm --eval %_builddir 2>/dev/null`"
- tmppath_dir="`rpm --eval %_tmppath 2>/dev/null`"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.7-libapse_better_source0_scrape.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.7-libapse_better_source0_scrape.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 66f596f..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.7-libapse_better_source0_scrape.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.7/lib/libapse.lib.in autospec-1.4.7.patched/lib/libapse.lib.in
---- autospec-1.4.7/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-07-05 19:23:29.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.7.patched/lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-07-12 14:16:29.000000000 +0200
-@@ -319,19 +319,24 @@
- 
-       local pcknameregexp=$(echo $pcknameverbatim | sed "\
-             s,%[{]*name[}]*,$specname,
--            s,%[{]*version[}]*,[A-Za-z0-9._]*,
--            s,%[{]*.*[}]*,[^[:space:]-]*,")
-+            s,%[{]*version[}]*,\\\([A-Za-z0-9._]*\\\),
-+            s,%[{]*.*[}]*,[A-Za-z0-9._]*,
-+            s,\.gz$,.,
-+            s,\.tgz$,.,
-+            s,\.bz2$,.,
-+            s,\.lzma$,.,")
- 
-       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
--         new_version=$(\
-+
-+         if [ "${pcknameregexp/(/}" = "${pcknameregexp}" ]; then
-+            notify.warning "* "$"not parametric source0 name; cannot update"
-+         else
-+            new_version=$(\
- grep -i "$pcknameregexp" $fcurlout | \
- sed "\
--s,.*\($pcknameregexp\).*,\1,g
--s/\.[^0-9].*//               # remove trailing stuff (.tar.gz, ...)
--s/.*-\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/        # <pck_name>-<pck_ver>
--s/.*_\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/        # <pck_name>_<pck_ver>
--s/[^0-9]*\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/g  # <pck_name><pck_ver>" | \
-+s,.*$pcknameregexp.*,\1,g" |
- sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10 | head -n1)
-+         fi
-       fi
- 
-       if [ "$new_version" ]; then
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.8-distrowatch_apse_grep.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.8-distrowatch_apse_grep.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5388179..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.8-distrowatch_apse_grep.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.8.orig/autospec.conf.in autospec-1.4.8/autospec.conf.in
---- autospec-1.4.8.orig/autospec.conf.in	2009-10-14 21:24:36.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.8/autospec.conf.in	2009-10-16 12:03:40.000000000 +0200
-@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
- apse_uri[5]="http://distrowatch.com/packages.php?"
- apse_put_fields[5]=""
- apse_error_msg[5]="is currently being redesigned"
--apse_grep[5]="td.*[^a-zA-Z]\${search_name}[^a-zA-Z0-9]"
-+apse_grep[5]="td.*/\${search_name}[-_][0-9]"
- apse_sed[5]="s,.*td><[^>]*>\([^ <]*\)<.*,\1,pi"
- 
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.8-libapse_candidate_versions.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.8-libapse_candidate_versions.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ca13dbe..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.8-libapse_candidate_versions.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
---- lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-10-16 11:50:55.000000000 +0200
-+++ lib/libapse.lib.in	2009-07-23 00:16:29.000000000 +0200
-@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@
- 
- . /usr/share/autospec/lib/libmsgmng.lib
- 
-+[ -r /usr/share/autospec/lib/libspec.lib ] ||
-+ { echo "$me: "$"library not found"": /usr/share/autospec/lib/libspec.lib" 1>&2
-+   exit 1; }
-+
-+. /usr/share/autospec/lib/libspec.lib
-+
- if [[ -z "$LANG" && -r /etc/sysconfig/i18n ]]; then
-    . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
-    [ "$LANG" ] && export LANG
-@@ -317,24 +323,66 @@
-       *) notify.warning $"curl error (exit code: $retval)" ;;
-       esac
- 
--      local pcknameregexp=$(echo $pcknameverbatim | sed "\
--            s,%[{]*name[}]*,$specname,
--            s,%[{]*version[}]*,\\\([A-Za-z0-9._]*\\\),
--            s,%[{]*.*[}]*,[A-Za-z0-9._]*,
--            s,\.gz$,.,
--            s,\.tgz$,.,
--            s,\.bz2$,.,
--            s,\.lzma$,.,")
-+      local svar svalue spck candidate_version
-+      # filter "?var:" expressions
-+      spck=`echo $pcknameverbatim | sed "s,%{?[A-Za-z0-9_]*:.*\(%[A-Za-z0-9_]*\)},\1,"`
-+
-+      while true; do
-+         svar=`echo $spck | sed "\
-+               s,.*%[{]*\([A-Za-z0-9_]*\)[}]*.*,\1,"`
-+         [ "$svar" = "$spck" ] && break
-+         if [ "$svar" = "version" ]; then
-+            svalue="\\\([A-Za-z0-9._]*\\\)"
-+         else
-+            svalue=`rpmvars.solve "%$svar" "$spec_dir/$specname.spec"`
-+            [ "$svalue" = "%$svar" ] && svalue=
-+         fi
-+         spck=`echo $spck | sed "\
-+               s,%[{]*$svar[}]*,$svalue,"`
-+      done
- 
-+      # remove archiver extension from rexexp to match changes
-+      local pcknameregexp=$(echo [^A-Za-z0-9._-]$spck | sed "\
-+            s,\.gz$,\\\.,
-+            s,\.tgz$,\\\.,
-+            s,\.bz2$,\\\.,
-+            s,\.lzma$,\\\.,
-+            s,\.lz$,\\\.,
-+            s,\.tbz2$,\\\.,")
-+#echo $pcknameregexp
-       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-          if [ "${pcknameregexp/(/}" = "${pcknameregexp}" ]; then
-             notify.warning "* "$"not parametric source0 name; cannot update"
-          else
--            new_version=$(\
-+            candidate_versions=($(\
- grep -i "$pcknameregexp" $fcurlout | \
- sed "\
--s,.*$pcknameregexp.*,\1,g" | \
--sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10 | head -n1)
-+s,.*$pcknameregexp.*,\1,g
-+s,.*\.md5,,
-+s,\.zip$,,
-+s,\.tar\.gz$,,
-+s,\.tar\.bz2$,,
-+s,\.gz$,,
-+s,\.tgz$,,
-+s,\.bz2$,,
-+s,\.lzma$,,
-+s,\.i386$,,
-+s,\.bin$,,
-+s,\.exe$,,
-+s,\.dmg$,,
-+s,\.tbz2$,,
-+s,\.lz$,," |
-+sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10 ))
-+
-+             local curr_version_dots new_version_dots candidate_version
-+             curr_version_dots=`echo $SPEC_VERSION | tr -d [0-9][A-Z][a-z]_`
-+             for candidate_version in ${candidate_versions[*]}; do
-+                # skip version with no dots if current version has at least one (e.g. date release like 20000110)
-+                new_version_dots=`echo $candidate_version | tr -d [0-9][A-Z][a-z]_`
-+                [ ${#new_version_dots} = 0 -a ${#curr_version_dots} -gt 0 ] && continue
-+                new_version=$candidate_version
-+                break
-+             done
-          fi
-       fi
- 
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.9-python_opt.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.9-python_opt.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 635a569..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.9-python_opt.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- autospec-1.4.9/templates/python.orig	2010-01-07 13:40:56.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.4.9/templates/python	2010-01-07 13:44:18.000000000 +0100
-@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
- %install
- [ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
- python setup.py install \
-+   -O1 \
-+   --skip-build \
-    --root="%{buildroot}" \
-    --install-headers=%{_includedir}/python \
-    --install-lib=%{python_sitearch}
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.4.9-python_template.patch b/patches/autospec-1.4.9-python_template.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d512fe..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.4.9-python_template.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.4.9.orig/templates/python autospec-1.4.9/templates/python
---- autospec-1.4.9.orig/templates/python	2008-05-11 22:41:59.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.4.9/templates/python	2010-01-06 10:55:10.781675316 +0100
-@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
- %setup -q
- 
- %build
--CFLAGS=\"%{optflags}\" python setup.py build
-+CFLAGS=\"%{optflags}\" %{__python} setup.py build
- 
- %install
- [ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
--python setup.py install \
-+%{__python} setup.py install \
-    --root="%{buildroot}" \
-    --install-headers=%{_includedir}/python \
-    --install-lib=%{python_sitearch}
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-autobuildreq_use_whatprovides.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-autobuildreq_use_whatprovides.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b0f74b2..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-autobuildreq_use_whatprovides.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-02 17:29:37.430222332 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-02 17:30:44.363341447 +0200
-@@ -2353,7 +2353,7 @@
-                      buildreq=libpython-devel
-                else
-                   # unidentified requirement
--                  buildreq=`rpm -q $req 2>/dev/null | sed "s|\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*|\1|"`
-+                  buildreq=`rpm -q --whatprovides $req 2>/dev/null | sed "s|\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*|\1|"`
-                   [ "$buildreq" ] || echo "#$req: not found; what is this?" >> $frequires
-                fi
-                if [ "${buildreq}" -a "${buildreq/%-devel/}" = "${buildreq}" ]; then
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-dont_backup_srpm_with_nosrpm_option.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-dont_backup_srpm_with_nosrpm_option.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 922dd59..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-dont_backup_srpm_with_nosrpm_option.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-04 13:53:29.024307664 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-04 13:56:16.759307837 +0200
-@@ -2992,6 +2992,7 @@
- 
-          # print the old SRPMS package...
-          [[ -n "$SPEC_FILENAME_old" && \
-+            "$nosrpm" != "1" && \
-             "$SPEC_VERSION_old-$SPEC_RELEASE_old" != \
-             "$SPEC_VERSION-$SPEC_RELEASE" ]] &&
-           { let "srpm_pcks_to_backup = 1"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-fix_undefined_SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-fix_undefined_SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0196d9b..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-fix_undefined_SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-08 17:45:44.896183449 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-08 19:43:32.147316080 +0200
-@@ -436,9 +436,9 @@
-            2>/dev/null >> $specfile_preprocessed" ||
-         notify.error $"rpm exited with error code \`$?'"
- 
--        SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED="$specfile_preprocessed"
--        notify.debug "SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED = \"$SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED\""
-      fi
-+     SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED="$specfile_preprocessed"
-+     notify.debug "SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED = \"$SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED\""
-      echo "SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED=\"$SPECFILE_PREPROCESSED\"" >> $infofile
- 
-      # set the variables 'rpmvar_name[]', 'rpmvar_value[]', 'rpmvar_expr[]'
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-get_default_arch_from_rpm.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-get_default_arch_from_rpm.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b2062c1..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-get_default_arch_from_rpm.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-21 19:13:06.294003023 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-21 19:12:32.407002798 +0200
-@@ -896,8 +896,7 @@
-    if [ ! "$target_cpu" ]; then
-       target_cpu="${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}"
-       if [ "$target_cpu" == "noarch" ]; then
-+         target_cpu=`rpm --eval %{_host_cpu}`
--         set -- ${arch_list[@]}
--         target_cpu=$1
-       fi
-    fi
-    notify.debug "target_cpu = $target_cpu"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-hidden_spec_old_files.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-hidden_spec_old_files.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c8863e..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-hidden_spec_old_files.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-08 17:41:33.864557659 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-08 17:43:53.356307747 +0200
-@@ -880,11 +880,11 @@
- function specfile.rotate_bck() {
-    local v
-    for v in `seq $((${spec_backup_numbers:-5} - 2)) -1 0`; do
--      [[ -e $spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$v.old ]] &&
-+      [[ -e $spec_dir/.${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$v.old ]] &&
-        { notify.debug "\
--[$spec_dir] ${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$v.old --> ${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$(($v + 1)).old"
--         mv -f $spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$v.old \
--               $spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$(($v + 1)).old; }
-+[$spec_dir] .${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$v.old --> .${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$(($v + 1)).old"
-+         mv -f $spec_dir/.${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$v.old \
-+               $spec_dir/.${SRPM_SPECFILE}.$(($v + 1)).old; }
-    done
- }
- 
-@@ -1230,9 +1230,9 @@
-          if [ -e "$spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE" ]; then
-             notify.note $"\
- making a ${NOTE}backup copy${NORM} of the current specfile""
--   --> ${NOTE}$spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old${NORM}"
-+   --> ${NOTE}$spec_dir/.${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old${NORM}"
-             cp -f $spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE \
--                  $spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old
-+                  $spec_dir/.${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old
-          fi
- 
-          rpm -hiv --nodeps \
-@@ -1372,9 +1372,9 @@
- #
- #         notify.note $"\
- #making a ${NOTE}backup copy${NORM} of the current specfile""
--#   --> ${NOTE}$spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old${NORM}"
-+#   --> ${NOTE}$spec_dir/.${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old${NORM}"
- #         cp -f $SRPM_SPECFILE_WITH_PATH \
--#              ${SRPM_SPECFILE_WITH_PATH}.0.old
-+#              .${SRPM_SPECFILE_WITH_PATH}.0.old
- 
-          notify.note $"${NOTE}updating${NORM} the new specfile \
- \`${NOTE}$spec_dir/$SRPM_SPECFILE${NORM}'""..."
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-install_srpms_with_nodeps.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-install_srpms_with_nodeps.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bb79350..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-install_srpms_with_nodeps.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-07-17 23:00:50.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-07-31 19:55:55.222342783 +0200
-@@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@
-                   $spec_dir/${SRPM_SPECFILE}.0.old
-          fi
- 
--         rpm -hiv \
-+         rpm -hiv --nodeps \
-              --define "%_specdir $spec_dir" \
-              --define "%_sourcedir $source_dir" \
-              $srpms_dir/$got_SPEC_FILENAME 2>&1 >/dev/null ||
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-noarch_allow_upload_to_given_arch_only-2.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-noarch_allow_upload_to_given_arch_only-2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e0fcee..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-noarch_allow_upload_to_given_arch_only-2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-16 14:02:21.485570021 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-16 14:03:53.353694250 +0200
-@@ -2269,8 +2269,13 @@
-          for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[*]}; do
-             # FIXME : we should check and complain if the package has
-             # been built for a different architecture
--            filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
-+            if [ "${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}" == "noarch" ]; then
-+               filename="$rpms_dir/noarch/\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.noarch.rpm"
-+            else
-+               filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
- $pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
-+            fi
-             #notify.note " * $filename"
-             [ -e $filename ] ||
-                notify.error $"package not found"": \`$filename'"
-@@ -2283,8 +2288,13 @@
-          for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[*]}; do
-             # FIXME : we should check and complain if the package has
-             # been built for a different architecture
--            filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
-+            if [ "${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}" == "noarch" ]; then
-+               filename="$rpms_dir/noarch/\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.noarch.rpm"
-+            else
-+               filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
- $pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
-+            fi
-             notify.note " * $filename"
-             #[ -e $filename ] ||
-             #   notify.error $"package not found"": \`$filename'"
-@@ -2389,9 +2399,14 @@
-          for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[*]}; do
-             # FIXME : we should check and complain if the package has
-             # been built for a different architecture
--            filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
-+            if [ "${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}" == "noarch" ]; then
-+               filename="$rpms_dir/noarch/\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.noarch.rpm"
-+            else
-+               filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
- $pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
--             notify.note " * $filename"
-+            fi
-+            notify.note " * $filename"
-             [ -e $filename ] ||
-                notify.error $"package not found"": \`$filename'"
-          done
-@@ -2578,8 +2593,13 @@
-             $tool -b $filename | sed "s,*.*/\(.*\),\1,"
-             local i=0
-             for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[@]}; do
--               filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
-+               if [ "${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}" == "noarch" ]; then
-+                  filename="$rpms_dir/noarch/\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.noarch.rpm"
-+               else
-+                  filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
- $pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
-+               fi
-                [ -e "$filename" ] ||
-                   notify.error $"package not found"": \`$filename'"
-                $tool -b $filename | sed "s,*.*/\(.*\),\1,"
-@@ -3116,8 +3136,13 @@
-          if [ "$rpm_download_and_install" ]; then
-             local pck2install_list=""
-             for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[@]}; do
--               filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
-+               if [ "${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}" == "noarch" ]; then
-+                  filename="$rpms_dir/noarch/\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.noarch.rpm"
-+               else
-+                  filename="$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/\
- $pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
-+               fi
- 
-                [[ -n "$rpm_install_noinstall_mask" &&
-                   $filename =~ $rpm_install_noinstall_mask ]] && continue
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-noarch_allow_upload_to_given_arch_only.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-noarch_allow_upload_to_given_arch_only.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bb9479..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-noarch_allow_upload_to_given_arch_only.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-12 12:13:49.374802087 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-12 12:22:00.533683095 +0200
-@@ -893,31 +893,23 @@
- # args:
- #    none
- function target_cpu.set_and_check() {
--   if [ "$target_cpu" ]; then
--      # command '--arch' used by user to force the architecture
--      # 'BuildArch' in the specfile takes precedence over cmdline
--      if [[ -n "$SPEC_BUILDARCH" && \
--            "$target_cpu" != "$SPEC_BUILDARCH" ]]; then
--         notify.warning $"\
--command line architecture ignored, using:"\
--" \`${NOTE}$SPEC_BUILDARCH${NORM}' (BuildArch)"
--         target_cpu="$SPEC_BUILDARCH"
--      fi
--   else
-+   if [ ! "$target_cpu" ]; then
-       target_cpu="${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}"
-+      if [ "$target_cpu" == "noarch" ]; then
-+         set -- ${arch_list[@]}
-+         target_cpu=$1
-+      fi
-    fi
-    notify.debug "target_cpu = $target_cpu"
- 
--   if [ "$target_cpu" != "noarch" ]; then
--      # check if the 'target_cpu' is an allowed architecture
--      local arch_list_curr bad_arch=1
--      for arch_list_curr in ${arch_list[@]}; do
--         [ "$arch_list_curr" = "$target_cpu" ] &&
--          { let "bad_arch = 0"; break; }
--      done
--      [ "$bad_arch" = 1 ] &&
--         notify.error $"unsupported architecture"": \`$target_cpu'"
--   fi
-+   # check if the 'target_cpu' is an allowed architecture
-+   local arch_list_curr bad_arch=1
-+   for arch_list_curr in ${arch_list[@]}; do
-+      [ "$arch_list_curr" = "$target_cpu" ] &&
-+      { let "bad_arch = 0"; break; }
-+   done
-+   [ "$bad_arch" = 1 ] &&
-+      notify.error $"unsupported architecture"": \`$target_cpu'"
- }
- 
- # function package.update()
-@@ -2801,21 +2793,32 @@
-          if [ "$norpms" = "0" ]; then
-             let "i = 0"
-             for pck in ${SPEC_TARGET[@]}; do
--               filename="\
--$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
--               [ -e $rpms_dir/$target_cpu/$filename ] &&
--                  notify.note "\
-- * ${NOTE}$filename${NORM}" ||
--                  notify.error $"\
--package not found"": \`$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/$filename'"
--
-                # copy noarch packages to all the repository set in the
-                # configuration variable `arch_noarch_upload[]'
--               if [ "$target_cpu" = "noarch" ]; then
-+               if [ "${SPEC_BUILDARCH:-$BUILD_ARCH}" = "noarch" ]; then
-+                  filename="\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.noarch.rpm"
-+                  [ -e $rpms_dir/noarch/$filename ] &&
-+                     notify.note "\
-+ * ${NOTE}$filename${NORM}" ||
-+                     notify.error $"\
-+package not found"": \`$rpms_dir/noarch/$filename'"
-+
-                   for upload_arch in \
-                      ${arch_noarch_upload[$ftp_server_upload_num]}; do
--                     currurl="\
-+                     if [ "$upload_arch" == "@arch@" ]; then
-+                        if [ "$target_cpu" != "noarch" ]; then
-+                           currurl="\
-+$(repository.resolveURL "$upload_ftp_rpms_dir" "${target_cpu}")"
-+                        else
-+                           set -- ${arch_list[*]}
-+                           currurl="\
-+$(repository.resolveURL "$upload_ftp_rpms_dir" "$1")"
-+                        fi
-+                     else
-+                        currurl="\
- $(repository.resolveURL "$upload_ftp_rpms_dir" "$upload_arch")"
-+                     fi
-                      notify.note "\
-    --> ""$upload_ftp_server${upload_ftp_port:+:$upload_ftp_port} :: $currurl"
- 
-@@ -2839,6 +2842,14 @@
-                      [ $? -eq 0 ] || exit 1
-                   done
-                else
-+                  filename="\
-+$pck-$pck_rpmversion-$pck_rpmrelease$DISTRO_rpm.$target_cpu.rpm"
-+                  [ -e $rpms_dir/$target_cpu/$filename ] &&
-+                     notify.note "\
-+ * ${NOTE}$filename${NORM}" ||
-+                     notify.error $"\
-+package not found"": \`$rpms_dir/$target_cpu/$filename'"
-+
-                   currurl="\
- $(repository.resolveURL "$upload_ftp_rpms_dir" "$target_cpu")"
-                   notify.note "\
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-replace_obsolete_PreReq.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-replace_obsolete_PreReq.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0567228..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-replace_obsolete_PreReq.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//autospec.spec.in autospec-1.5.0/autospec.spec.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//autospec.spec.in	2010-07-11 20:58:17.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/autospec.spec.in	2010-08-09 00:38:28.364052465 +0200
-@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
- Packager:      Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan@gmail.com>
- URL:           http://www.openmamba.org/packages.html
- Source:        autospec-%{version}.tar.bz2
--PreReq:        rpm
-+Requires(pre): rpm
- Requires:      cpio, coreutils, curl, findutils, grep, sed
- Requires:      /bin/mktemp
- Requires:      /usr/bin/getopt
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-09 00:37:02.782052085 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/pck-update.in	2010-08-09 00:39:07.550052253 +0200
-@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@
-                notify.debug "rpm_macro_uninstallinfo check failed"; }
-          fi
-          if [ "$rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ]; then
--            grep -q "PreReq[ \t]*:[ \t]*${rpm_macro_installinfo_binary}" \
-+            grep -q "Requires(post)[ \t]*:[ \t]*${rpm_macro_installinfo_binary}" \
-                $specfile ||
-              { let "errors += 1"
-                notify.debug "rpm_macro_installinfo_binary check failed"; }
-@@ -769,8 +769,8 @@
- ---------------------------------------
- ${NOTE}"$"Hint"":${NORM}
- $([[ "$rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ]] &&
--   echo "PreReq: $rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ||
--   echo "PreReq: ${path_installinfo:-/sbin/install-info}")
-+   echo "Requires(post):$rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ||
-+   echo "Requires(post):${path_installinfo:-/sbin/install-info}")
- 
- %post [<subpackage>]
- $([[ "$rpm_macro_installinfo" ]] &&
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/spec-create.in autospec-1.5.0/plugins/spec-create.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//plugins/spec-create.in	2010-04-12 20:04:46.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/plugins/spec-create.in	2010-08-09 00:39:27.935677047 +0200
-@@ -782,8 +782,8 @@
- License: ${spec_license:-$license_defvalue}"
- if [ "$(specfile.infopages --exist)" = 1 ]; then
-    [ "$rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ] &&
--      echo "PreReq: ${rpm_macro_installinfo_binary}" ||
--      echo "PreReq: ${path_installinfo:-/sbin/install-info}"
-+      echo "Requires(post):${rpm_macro_installinfo_binary}" ||
-+      echo "Requires(post):${path_installinfo:-/sbin/install-info}"
- fi
- [ "$spec_requires" ] && echo Requires: $spec_requires
- [ "$spec_buildrequires" ] && echo BuildRequires: $spec_buildrequires
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//tests/test01_pkgquality.in autospec-1.5.0/tests/test01_pkgquality.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//tests/test01_pkgquality.in	2010-05-14 21:33:13.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/tests/test01_pkgquality.in	2010-08-09 00:40:03.792692378 +0200
-@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@
- ---------------------------------------
- ${NOTE}"$"Hint"":${NORM}
- $([[ "$rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ]] &&
--   echo "PreReq: $rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ||
--   echo "PreReq: ${path_installinfo:-/sbin/install-info}")
-+   echo "Requires(post):$rpm_macro_installinfo_binary" ||
-+   echo "Requires(post):${path_installinfo:-/sbin/install-info}")
- 
- %post [<subpackage>]
- $([[ "$rpm_macro_installinfo" ]] &&
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//unmaintained/mbrowse.spec autospec-1.5.0/unmaintained/mbrowse.spec
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//unmaintained/mbrowse.spec	2006-11-24 18:58:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/unmaintained/mbrowse.spec	2010-08-09 00:40:35.354052403 +0200
-@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
- #Patch3:        http://www.awebsiteintheworld.org/awebpatch-%{version}.patch
- BuildRequires: net-snmp-devel >= 4.2
- BuildRequires: libopenssl-devel
--PreReq:        %{__install_info}
-+Requires(post):%{__install_info}
- %if %with_gui
- BuildRequires: libgtk1-devel >= 1.2.10
- #BuildRequires: libglib2-devel >= 2.1.5
diff --git a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-use_smart_for_rpm_download_and_install.patch b/patches/autospec-1.5.0-use_smart_for_rpm_download_and_install.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e9ad509..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-1.5.0-use_smart_for_rpm_download_and_install.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru autospec-1.5.0.orig//autospec.conf.in autospec-1.5.0/autospec.conf.in
---- autospec-1.5.0.orig//autospec.conf.in	2010-07-17 23:09:02.000000000 +0200
-+++ autospec-1.5.0/autospec.conf.in	2010-08-02 13:10:25.213473018 +0200
-@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@
- #          Cmnd_Alias DISTRO_CMD = /usr/bin/apt-get, /bin/rpm
- #          %packager ALL = NOPASSWD: DISTRO_CMD
- #        (of course your user must belong to the `packager' group)
--rpm_download_and_install="sudo apt-get --quiet --yes install"
-+#rpm_download_and_install="sudo apt-get --quiet --yes install"
-+rpm_download_and_install="sudo smart install --yes"
- rpm_install="sudo rpm -hUv"
- rpm_install_force="sudo rpm -hUv --force --nodeps"
- 
diff --git a/patches/autospec-install.patch b/patches/autospec-install.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e23b178..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-install.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- pck-update.orig	2008-10-11 15:55:53.000000000 +0200
-+++ pck-update	2008-10-11 15:56:00.000000000 +0200
-@@ -3608,8 +3608,7 @@
-                [ "$rpm_install_force" ] || notify.error "\
- \`rpm_install_force': "$"unset in the configuration files"
-                notify.debug "$rpm_install_force $pck2install_list"
--               $rpm_install_force $pck2install_list ||
--                  notify.error $"cannot install the new rpm packages"
-+               $rpm_install_force $pck2install_list
-             else
-                [ "$rpm_install" ] || notify.error "\
- \`rpm_install': "$"unset in the configuration files"
diff --git a/patches/autospec-trver.patch b/patches/autospec-trver.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 950c724..0000000
--- a/patches/autospec-trver.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- libapse.lib.orig    2008-10-10 01:39:44.000000000 +0200
-+++ libapse.lib 2008-10-10 01:50:06.000000000 +0200
-@@ -429,7 +429,8 @@
-    unset APSE_LAST_VERSION
-
-    if [ "$last_version" ]; then
--      APSE_LAST_VERSION="$last_version"
-+      last_version="${last_version/-/.}"
-+      APSE_LAST_VERSION="${last_version}"
-       notify.note $"\
- last version of \`${NOTE}$specname${NORM}' found:"" \
- \`${NOTE}$last_version${NORM}'"