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> Along those lines may I suggest that a developer area is setup somewhere
> on a trinty servers that has the following info by package
>
> 1.    Package name to be built
> 2.    All the dependency packages used to build the package at this time.
> 3.    The configure parameters etc.
> 4.     How it was built.
>
> Have a look at linux from scratch as an example.

Good idea!  The Wiki would be a good place for this document.

Tim