I checked out the 5.4.2-30 spec from cvs, and tried to build under F11, here is the changes I made otherwise it won't build:

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RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/vtk/F-11/vtk.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 vtk.spec
--- vtk.spec	8 Jun 2009 06:04:08 -0000	1.20
+++ vtk.spec	13 Jul 2009 23:21:25 -0000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 License: BSD
 Group: System Environment/Libraries
 Source: http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.4/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0: vtk-5.2.0-pythondestdir.patch
+Patch0: vtk-5.2.1-pythondestdir.patch
 Patch1: vtk-5.2.0-gcc43.patch
 URL: http://vtk.org/
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
@@ -224,19 +224,16 @@
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}
 make install
-mv tmpinstall/* %{buildroot}/
+cp -R tmpinstall/* %{buildroot}/
 
 if [ "%{_lib}" != lib -a "`ls %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/*`" != "" ]; then
   mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}
   mv %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/* %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/
 fi
 
-# Gather list of non-python/tcl libraries
-ls %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.so.* \
-  | grep -Ev '(Java|QVTK|PythonD|TCL)' | sed -e's,^%{buildroot},,' > libs.list
-
 # List of executable utilities
 cat > utils.list << EOF
+lproj
 vtkParseOGLExt
 vtkEncodeString
 EOF
@@ -296,15 +293,20 @@
   chrpath -d %{buildroot}$file
 done
 
-# Main package contains utils and core libs
-cat libs.list utils.list > main.list
-
 # Make shared libs and scripts executable
 mv %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/vtk-5.4/lib*.so* %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/
+
 chmod a+x %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib*.so.*
 chmod a+x %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/vtk-5.4/doxygen/*.pl
 chmod a+x %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/vtk-5.4/testing/*.{py,tcl}
 
+# Gather list of non-python/tcl libraries
+ls %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.so.* \
+  | grep -Ev '(Java|QVTK|PythonD|TCL)' | sed -e's,^%{buildroot},,' > libs.list
+
+# Main package contains utils and core libs
+cat libs.list utils.list > main.list
+
 # Remove exec bit from non-scripts and %%doc
 for file in `find %{buildroot} -type f -perm 0755 \
   | xargs -r file | grep ASCII | awk -F: '{print $1}'`; do
@@ -353,6 +355,7 @@
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc Utilities/Upgrading
+%{_libdir}/vtk-5.4/doc
 %{_libdir}/vtk-5.4/doxygen
 %{_includedir}/vtk
 %{_libdir}/*.so


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