[grib_api/el5/master] (7 commits) ...Merge from el6

[Orion Poplawski]

Summary of changes:

  43fdded... Initialize branch F-12 for grib_api (*)
  3b8e46a... Fix typo that causes a failure to update the common directo (*)
  27ef16c... dist-git conversion (*)
  4418569... Sync from master (*)
  268984d... Update to 1.9.8 Add patch to fix data install paths Only co (*)
  9a78318... Add datapaths patch (*)
  a23e36c... Merge from el6

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