known permissions setting from rpm --queryformat, so that it can override
any directories that do indeed have a permission set.
* Fixed MakeFile.PL to work with perl 5.8.
* Applied a patch from Chris Gorman to deal with spaces in directory
names, spaces in conffile names (!!), and accented characters
everywhere in deb -> rpm conversions.
* Fixed numerous problems when converting from .deb w/o dpkg installed.