Anyone interested in hacking down the weeds on this?

http://oxfordrepo.blogspot.com/2008/08/dspace-and-fedora-need-opinionated.html

I think there are a few interesting aspects to this:

• What should go in a "default" install (db choice, security settings,
  ri on/off, etc)
• How do you put a proper .deb together for Fedora (manually)?
• How do you build a .deb automatically (so it can get easily updated
  per-release)?
• What kind of cookies?

- Chris

(see mailing list thread)

Example software that has an ant target for building a .deb:

• JHL: http://code.google.com/p/rdv/wiki/BuildingSourceCode

Note: Some work has already been done in this area

• Prepackaging Fedora Commons 2.2.1 for Debian Etch