obvious simple answer is that I maintain:

1. A set of patches to make certain portions of the source tree

'behave' in the different environment of the RPMset;

2.2.)The initscript;

3.3.)Any other ancilliary scripts and files;

4.4.)A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document

boththe differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the

2. The initscript;

3. Any other ancilliary scripts and files;

4. A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document both

the differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the

differences, as well as useful RPM environment operations (like,

using syslog, upgrading, getting postmaster to start at OS boot,

etc);

5.5.)The spec file that throws it all together. This is not a

trivialundertaking in a package of this size.

5. The spec file that throws it all together. This is not a trivial

undertaking in a package of this size.

I then download and build on as many different canonical distributions

as I can -- currently I am able to build on Red Hat 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1