The good news: In the spirit of scratching your own itch, I have built an RPM set for Zope 2.5.0 that "works on my machine" :-) I based the spec on the 2.4.3 spec, but I stick much closer to the default install than the previous RPMS, effectively wrapping up a wo_pcgi build and packaging that with a /var/zope instance home. The RPMS also take care of logging stuff, startup scripts etc for you. PCGI is not supported, but you should be proxying to multi-threaded zserver using squid or apache if you're running Zope on linux anyway, (i.e. who cares). The spec should no longer be such a P.I.T.A. to update to the next Zope version, 'cause the RPM build simply executes a wo_pcgi build for you instead of individually compiling all the C extensions. The rpms require python 2.1.2 The bad news: The install sticks much closer to the default install than previously, effectively undoing a lot of the good restructuring work done in earlier RPM releases. The "throw everything in either /usr/share/zope or /var/zope" install is definitely not pretty (or FHS compliant). There is no "make install" equivalent functionality that puts stuff where it should be, IMHO this should be done by wo_pcgi, or distutils anyway, not by a monster 1000+ line spec. The extra files that used to be included, and the extra packages that used to get built, are gone. It's just the bare essentials. You get a Zope and Zope-zserver package, with only one doc included, the readme, (which is out of date) The rpms have only been tested on RedHat 7.2. After install, rpm -V will complain about a missing inituser file (zope deletes it after loading the user into the ZODB) One more thing, I'm not using these RPMS in production yet, and you probably shouldn't be either ;-) So here's the deal: If, after reading the above, anyone wants the source RPM, wants to work on it, make the w_pcgi build work with RPM, clean it up, host it, or install it (if you wanna be a tester), I'd be happy to email / upload to you the ~2Mb .src.rpm file. I can also tar up the spec and other files w/out the src tarball included for those who cannot receive a ~2Mb attachment. Adam