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 # traceroute
 
+Traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host. See traceroute(8) in the manual of your system for more info.
+
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+### AUTOUPDATE-OFF: 8 9
+Name:          traceroute
+Version:       2.0.20
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       Tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host
+Group:         Applications/Networking
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it>
+URL:           http://traceroute.sourceforge.net/
+Source:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/traceroute/traceroute/traceroute-%{version}/traceroute-%{version}.tar.gz
+License:       GPL
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+BuildRequires: glibc-devel
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host. See traceroute(8) in the manual of your system for more info.
+
+%debug_package
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%make prefix=%{_prefix}
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall prefix=%{_prefix}
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/traceroute
+%{_mandir}/man8/traceroute.8*
+%doc COPYING COPYING.LIB CREDITS
+
+%changelog
+* Sat Jun 21 2014 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 2.0.20-1mamba
+- package created using the webbuild interface