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 # safecopy
 
+safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, ..., where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors.
+
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+Name:          safecopy
+Version:       1.7
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       A data recovery tool which tries to extract data from a seekable source
+Group:         Applications/File
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org>
+URL:           http://safecopy.sourceforge.net/
+Source:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/safecopy/safecopy-%{version}.tar.gz
+License:       GPL
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, ..., where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/%{name}
+%{_mandir}/man1/safecopy.1*
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jul 12 2012 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.7-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Wed May 12 2010 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.6-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Wed Jul 29 2009 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.5-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Thu Jul 16 2009 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.4-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Fri Jul 10 2009 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 1.3-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Thu Feb 19 2009 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 1.1-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Tue Nov 18 2008 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 0.2-2mamba
+- specfile name fixed
+
+* Sun Nov 18 2007 Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@openmamba.org> 0.2-1mamba
+- package created by autospec