Several issues came up during packaging argus for Fedora Extras:

1. the contrib/ subdirectory of the Argus clients source package
   contains a PERL module, which causes a dependency on PERL,
   even though the contrib directory was added using %doc, and
   even though no executable bits were set. Here is a fix,
   suggested by dgregor on #fedora-extras:

dgregor # Filter unwanted Requires:
dgregor cat << \EOF > %{name}-req
dgregor #!/bin/sh
dgregor %{__perl_provides} $* | sed -e '/.*/d'
dgregor EOF
dgregor %define __perl_requires %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/%{name}-req
dgregor chmod +x %{__perl_requires}
dgregor It seems like overkill, but everything else I tried get the broken pipe error

   Currently I'm hoping for a fix to rpmbuild, allowing something like
   '%doc(nodeps) foo' in a spec file. If that doesn't pan out, the above
   solution will do the trick. Alternatively, creating a perl-Argus rpm
   from the material in contrib is a possibility.

2. aside from build and makefile patches (fixing gcc 4.0.2 and
   DESTDIR issues, respectively), I added an output formatting patch
   from Peter Van Epp <vanepp@sfu.ca> which can be found on the Argus
   mailing list archives

   (https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/argus-info)

   This and other fixes will be incorporated upstream into a new
   release, as indicated by Argus's author on the list.