diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
 # foremost
 
+Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
+This process is commonly referred to as data carving.
+Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive.
+The headers and footers can be specified by a configuration file or you can use command line switches to specify built-in file types.
+These built-in types look at the data structures of a given file format allowing for a more reliable and faster recovery.
+
+Originally developed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations and The Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research, foremost has been opened to the general public.
+
diff --git a/foremost-1.5.6-fix_build.patch b/foremost-1.5.6-fix_build.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff -Nru foremost-1.5.6.orig/main.h foremost-1.5.6/main.h
+--- foremost-1.5.6.orig/main.h	2010-01-11 21:28:38.428203679 +0100
++++ foremost-1.5.6/main.h	2010-01-11 21:28:59.701204009 +0100
+@@ -456,8 +456,7 @@
+ 	size_t table[UCHAR_MAX + 1], int case_sen,int searchtype);
+ unsigned char *bm_search_skipn(unsigned char *needle, size_t needle_len,unsigned char *haystack, size_t haystack_len,
+ 	size_t table[UCHAR_MAX + 1], int casesensitive,int searchtype, int start_pos) ;	
+-#endif /* __FOREMOST_H */
+-
++
+ /* BUILTIN */
+ unsigned char* extract_file(f_state *s,  u_int64_t c_offset,unsigned char *foundat,  u_int64_t buflen, s_spec * needle, u_int64_t f_offset);
+ 
diff --git a/foremost.spec b/foremost.spec
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+Name:          foremost
+Version:       1.5.7
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       A console program to recover files based on data carving
+Group:         Applications/File
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org>
+URL:           http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
+Source:        http://foremost.sourceforge.net/pkg/foremost-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:        foremost-1.5.6-fix_build.patch
+License:       Public Domain
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
+This process is commonly referred to as data carving.
+Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive.
+The headers and footers can be specified by a configuration file or you can use command line switches to specify built-in file types.
+These built-in types look at the data structures of a given file format allowing for a more reliable and faster recovery.
+
+Originally developed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations and The Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research, foremost has been opened to the general public.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
+sed -i -e "s,/usr/local,," config.c
+sed -i -e "s,.*__U16_TYPE.*,," main.h
+
+%build
+%make \
+   RAW_CC=%{_target_platform}-gcc
+#   RAW_FLAGS="%{optflags} -DVERSION=\"\$(VERSION)\""
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+install -d %{buildroot}{%{_bindir},%{_sysconfdir},%{_mandir}/man1}
+%makeoldinstall \
+   BIN=%{buildroot}%{_bindir} \
+   CONF=%{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir} \
+   MAN=%{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/foremost
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/foremost.conf
+%{_mandir}/man1/*
+%doc CHANGES README
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Jun 25 2012 Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org> 1.5.7-1mamba
+- update to 1.5.7
+
+* Mon Jan 11 2010 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 1.5.6-1mamba
+- update to 1.5.6
+
+* Wed Aug 29 2007 Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org> 1.5-1mamba
+- package created by autospec