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+#!/usr/bin/make
+# WARN: gmake syntax
+########################################################
+# Makefile for $(NAME)
+#
+# useful targets:
+#	make check -- manifest checks
+#	make clean -- clean distutils
+#	make coverage_report -- code coverage report
+#	make flake8 -- flake8 checks
+#	make pylint -- source code checks
+#	make rpm -- build RPM package
+#	make sdist -- build python source distribution
+#	make systest -- runs the system tests
+#	make tests -- run all of the tests
+#	make unittest -- runs the unit tests
+#
+# Notes:
+# 1) flake8 is a wrapper around pep8, pyflakes, and McCabe.
+########################################################
+# variable section
+
+NAME = "python_jenkinsfile_testing"
+
+PYTHON=python
+COVERAGE=coverage
+NOSE_OPTS = --with-coverage --cover-package=$(NAME)
+SITELIB = $(shell $(PYTHON) -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")
+
+VERSION := $(shell awk '/__version__/{print $$NF}' $(NAME)/__init__.py | sed "s/'//g")
+
+RPMSPECDIR = .
+RPMSPEC = $(RPMSPECDIR)/$(NAME).spec
+RPMRELEASE = 1
+RPMNVR = "$(NAME)-$(VERSION)-$(RPMRELEASE)"
+
+FLAKE8_IGNORE = E302,E203,E261
+
+########################################################
+
+all: clean check flake8 pylint tests
+
+flake8:
+	flake8 --ignore=$(FLAKE8_IGNORE) $(NAME)/
+	flake8 --ignore=$(FLAKE8_IGNORE),E402 tests/
+
+pylint:
+	find ./$(NAME) ./tests -name \*.py | xargs pylint --rcfile .pylintrc
+
+check:
+	@echo "Check-manifest disabled pending https://github.com/mgedmin/check-manifest/issues/68"
+	#check-manifest
+
+clean:
+	@echo "Cleaning up distutils stuff"
+	rm -rf build
+	rm -rf dist
+	rm -rf MANIFEST
+	rm -rf *.egg-info
+	@echo "Cleaning up byte compiled python stuff"
+	find . -type f -regex ".*\.py[co]$$" -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up doc builds"
+	rm -rf docs/_build
+	rm -rf docs/api_modules
+	rm -rf docs/client_modules
+	@echo "Cleaning up test reports"
+	rm -rf report/*
+
+rpmcommon: sdist
+	@mkdir -p rpmbuild
+	@cp dist/*.gz rpmbuild/
+	@cp -R conf/* rpmbuild/
+	@sed -e 's#^Version:.*#Version: $(VERSION)#' -e 's#^Release:.*#Release: $(RPMRELEASE)#' $(RPMSPEC) >rpmbuild/$(NAME).spec
+
+rpm: rpmcommon
+	@rpmbuild --define "_topdir %(pwd)/rpmbuild" \
+	--define "_builddir %{_topdir}" \
+	--define "_rpmdir %{_topdir}" \
+	--define "_srcrpmdir %{_topdir}" \
+	--define "_specdir $(RPMSPECDIR)" \
+	--define "_sourcedir %{_topdir}" \
+	--define "_rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm" \
+	--define "__python /usr/bin/python" \
+	-ba rpmbuild/$(NAME).spec
+	@rm -f rpmbuild/$(NAME).spec
+
+sdist: clean
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist
+
+tests: unittest systest coverage_report
+
+unittest: clean
+	nosetests $(NOSE_OPTS) tests/unit/*
+
+systest: clean
+	nosetests $(NOSE_OPTS) tests/system/*
+
+coverage_report:
+	$(COVERAGE) report --rcfile=".coveragerc"