diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2ab90c2..7abf831 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -21,8 +21,43 @@ elfutils-portable.spec: elfutils.spec
 	(echo '%define _with_compat 1'; cat $<) > $@.new
 	mv -f $@.new $@
 
-portable: elfutils-$(VERSION)-0.$(RELEASE).src.rpm
-elfutils-$(VERSION)-0.$(RELEASE).src.rpm: elfutils-portable.spec \
-					  elfutils-portability.patch \
-					  sources
+portable-vr = $(VERSION)-0.$(RELEASE)
+portable.srpm = elfutils-$(portable-vr).src.rpm
+$(portable.srpm): elfutils-portable.spec elfutils-portability.patch sources
 	$(RPM_WITH_DIRS) --nodeps -bs $<
+
+portable-dist = 3.0E-scratch
+portable-beehive = $(redhat)/dist/$(portable-dist)/elfutils/$(portable-vr)
+
+ifeq (,$(wildcard /mnt/redhat/dist/.))
+redhat = datadump.devel.redhat.com::redhat
+rsync-to = devserv.devel.redhat.com:dist/elfutils/devel/systemtap-dist/
+beehive-dep =
+else
+redhat = /mnt/redhat
+$(portable-beehive): $(portable.srpm)
+	$(BHC_CLIENT) $(BHC_FLAGS) dist-$(portable-dist) $<
+rsync-to = $(public)
+beehive-dep = $(portable-beehive)
+portable-build: $(portable-beehive)
+endif
+
+dist-files = README.elfutils systemtap-elfutils.repo \
+	     elfutils-$(VERSION).tar.gz elfutils-portability.patch
+rsync-files = --exclude=tests $(portable-beehive)/
+public = sources.redhat.com:/sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/systemtap/elfutils/
+
+RSYNC = RSYNC_RSH=ssh rsync
+
+systemtap-dist: $(beehive-dep) $(dist-files)
+	@mkdir -p $@
+	$(RSYNC) -a --delete --progress $(rsync-files) systemtap-dist/
+	ln $(dist-files) systemtap-dist/
+
+systemtap-dist-createrepo: systemtap-dist
+ifneq ($(wildcard /usr/bin/createrepo),)
+	createrepo -q $<
+endif
+
+systemtap-sync: systemtap-dist-createrepo
+	$(RSYNC) -az --delete --progress systemtap-dist/ $(rsync-to)
diff --git a/README.elfutils b/README.elfutils
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6008fa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.elfutils
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+THIS IS HERE ONLY TO SUPPORT SYSTEMTAP DEVELOPMENT.  IT IS NOT FOR GENERAL USE.
+
+Building systemtap requires a recent development version of elfutils,
+which provides libraries for making use of debugging information.
+
+This is unfinished work in active development.  This code is not intended
+for general consumption in its present form.  Development of these
+libraries is simultaneous with Systemtap development.  The Systemtap code
+will require new versions as things evolve; the systemtap.spec.in file in
+the systemtap source tree should always indicate the minimum version of
+elfutils libraries that will suffice.  We will make an effort to make a
+compatible version available here, that you can use for compiling Systemtap.
+
+Current elfutils can always be found in Fedora Core Development, AKA Rawhide.
+If you are interested in the elfutils code in general or for any purpose
+other than developing Systemtap, please see http://fedora.redhat.com/ about
+getting involved with Fedora Core Development directly.
+
+You can find the rawhide rpms updated daily on a variety of sites
+(see http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html) under core/development.
+What's distributed in this directory is made trivially from those same sources.
+
+The vanilla elfutils code, in elfutils-VERSION.tar.gz and what the rawhide
+RPMs ordinarily build, can only be built using GCC 4 and a recent glibc.
+Fedora Core 4 is the only released system meeting the requirements.
+
+To rebuild the rawhide src.rpm on an older system, you can use:
+
+	rpmbuild --with compat --rebuild elfutils-VERSION-N.src.rpm
+
+The SRPMS/elfutils-VERSION-0.N.src.rpm provided here is exactly the same as
+the elfutils-VERSION-N.src.rpm from Rawhide except that it doesn't require
+that you specify --with compat to build on an older system.
+
+We have done this for you for a few architectures, and those RPMs are
+available here.  These were built on RHEL3, and so their requirements
+should not be too demanding.  We must remind you that this is unsupported,
+pre-beta development code.  Furthermore, these builds are completely
+unofficial, unsupported, unsigned, unlikely to have been tested,
+unequivocally not guaranteed not to ruin your whole day, and we really
+cannot recommend that anyone install them on their system.  Do so at your
+own risk.  All that said, here they is, and if you copy this file:
+
+	ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/elfutils/systemtap-elfutils.repo
+
+into your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, then you can get them with:
+
+	yum install elfutils-libelf-devel
+
+
+To compile elfutils from source by hand, simply use elfutils-VERSION.tar.gz
+and follow the usual procedure for GNU configure conventions.  The patch
+available here has to be applied before you can compile on an older system:
+
+	tar xzf elfutils-VERSION.tar.gz
+	patch -p1 -d elfutils-VERSION < elfutils-portability.patch
+	cd elfutils-VERSION
+	./configure && make && make check && make install
+
+(That of course installs things under /usr/local, unlike the RPMs.)
+
+
+Caveat emptor.  Carpe noctem.  Reply to <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>.
diff --git a/systemtap-elfutils.repo b/systemtap-elfutils.repo
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96d326b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/systemtap-elfutils.repo
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[systemtap-elfutils]
+name=FOR SYSTEMTAP DEVELOPMENT ONLY
+baseurl=ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/elfutils/
+enabled=1
+gpgcheck=0