It doesn't look like I will be done with bdist_rpm tonight, here is the patch for the now install options; they are both intended to be run by RPM or other packaging systems from within a .spec file (or equivalent) (although the RPM process may have been launched by another setup.py) Some things I would like different: A better name for the file containing a list of installed files, or change it to allow a file to be specified as part of the option. Better help strings (I'm not good at help strings) Mac and Windows support for --package-prefix, I didn't implement them because I don't know the proper format for Windows and Mac paths to put in INSTALL_SCHEME . Is there a better way than using glob() to get a list of compiled byte-code files? I know glob() is available in Windows Python because I used it in a script I wrote for a friend of mine, but is it available in Mac Python? -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)