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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+class Redis(MakefilePackage):
+    """Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store,
+    used as a database, cache and message broker.
+
+    It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted
+    sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with
+    radius queries and streams. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting,
+    LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence,
+    and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic
+    partitioning with Redis Cluster
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://redis.io"
+    url = "http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-5.0.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('5.0.3',   sha256='e290b4ddf817b26254a74d5d564095b11f9cd20d8f165459efa53eb63cd93e02')
+    version('5.0.2',   sha256='937dde6164001c083e87316aa20dad2f8542af089dfcb1cbb64f9c8300cd00ed')
+    version('5.0.1',   sha256='82a67c0eec97f9ad379384c30ec391b269e17a3e4596393c808f02db7595abcb')
+    version('5.0.0',   sha256='70c98b2d0640b2b73c9d8adb4df63bcb62bad34b788fe46d1634b6cf87dc99a4')
+    version('4.0.13',  sha256='17d955227966dcd68590be6139e5fe7f2d19fc4fb7334248a904ea9cdd30c1d4')
+    version('4.0.12',  sha256='6447259d2eed426a949c9c13f8fdb2d91fb66d9dc915dd50db13b87f46d93162')
+    version('4.0.11',  sha256='fc53e73ae7586bcdacb4b63875d1ff04f68c5474c1ddeda78f00e5ae2eed1bbb')
+
+    @property
+    def install_targets(self):
+        return [
+            'PREFIX={0}'.format(self.spec.prefix),
+            'install'
+        ]