old_contents: ##############################################################################
  # Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
  # Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  #
  # This file is part of Spack.
  # Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
  # LLNL-CODE-647188
  #
  # For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
  # Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
  #
  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
  # published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
  #
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
  # conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
  #
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  # License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  ##############################################################################
  from spack import *
  
  
  class Star(Package):
      """STAR is an ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner."""
  
      homepage = "https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR"
      url      = "https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/2.5.3a.tar.gz"
  
      version('2.5.3a', 'baf8d1b62a50482cfa13acb7652dc391')
  
      def install(self, spec, prefix):
          with working_dir('source'):
              make('STAR', 'STARlong')
              mkdirp(prefix.bin)
              install('STAR', prefix.bin)
              install('STARlong', prefix.bin)
  
new_contents: ##############################################################################
  # Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
  # Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  #
  # This file is part of Spack.
  # Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
  # LLNL-CODE-647188
  #
  # For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
  # Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
  #
  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
  # published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
  #
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
  # conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
  #
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  # License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  ##############################################################################
  from spack import *
  
  
  class Star(Package):
      """STAR is an ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner."""
  
      homepage = "https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR"
      url      = "https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/2.5.3a.tar.gz"
  
      version('2.5.3a', 'baf8d1b62a50482cfa13acb7652dc391',
              url='https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/2.5.3a.tar.gz')
      version('2.4.2a', '8b9345f2685a5ec30731e0868e86d506',
              url='https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/STAR_2.4.2a.tar.gz')
  
      def install(self, spec, prefix):
          with working_dir('source'):
              make('STAR', 'STARlong')
              mkdirp(prefix.bin)
              install('STAR', prefix.bin)
              install('STARlong', prefix.bin)
  
subject: Add support for an older version of STAR (#4385)