We've accumulated too many patches/fixups/etc... to keep our sanity, so rpm2targz is now maintained in a git repo which we make releases from (so hopefully other distros can take advantage of things). You can find that repository here: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/rpm2targz.git;a=summary The versioning schema is simple. Just append '.0.#g' to the upstream version (which in this case is '9.0'). Increment the '#' over time. The 'g' is short for Gentoo. Awesome.