diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/GenericPackageSettings.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/GenericPackageSettings.scala
index bafb467d1..455813b10 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/GenericPackageSettings.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/GenericPackageSettings.scala
@@ -7,16 +7,12 @@ import sbt.Keys.{name, mappings, sourceDirectory}
 import linux.LinuxSymlink
 import linux.LinuxPackageMapping
 
-object GenericPackageSettings {
-  val installLocation = "/usr/share"
-}
 trait GenericPackageSettings 
     extends linux.LinuxPlugin 
     with debian.DebianPlugin 
     with rpm.RpmPlugin
     with windows.WindowsPlugin
     with universal.UniversalPlugin {
-  import GenericPackageSettings._
   
   // This method wires a lot of hand-coded generalities about how to map directories
   // into linux, and the conventions we expect.
@@ -33,6 +29,8 @@ trait GenericPackageSettings
    * `<universal>/conf` directory is given a symlink to `/etc/<package-name>`
    * Files in `conf/` or `etc/` directories are automatically marked as configuration.
    * `../man/...1` files are automatically compressed into .gz files.
+   *
+   * TODO - We need to figure out how to handle ownership here.
    */
   def mapGenericMappingsToLinux(mappings: Seq[(File, String)])(rename: String => String): Seq[LinuxPackageMapping] = {
     val (directories, nondirectories) = mappings.partition(_._1.isDirectory)
@@ -62,12 +60,16 @@ trait GenericPackageSettings
   }
   
   def mapGenericFilesToLinux: Seq[Setting[_]] = Seq(
+
+    // Default place to install code.
+    defaultLinuxInstallLocation := "/usr/share",
+
     // First we look at the src/linux files
     linuxPackageMappings <++= (sourceDirectory in Linux) map { dir =>
       mapGenericMappingsToLinux((dir.*** --- dir) x relativeTo(dir))(identity)
     },
     // Now we look at the src/universal files.
-    linuxPackageMappings <++= (normalizedName in Universal, mappings in Universal) map { (pkg, mappings) =>
+    linuxPackageMappings <++= (normalizedName in Universal, mappings in Universal, defaultLinuxInstallLocation) map { (pkg, mappings, installLocation) =>
       // TODO - More windows filters...
       def isWindowsFile(f: (File, String)): Boolean =
         f._2 endsWith ".bat"
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ trait GenericPackageSettings
       }
     },
     // Now we generate symlinks.
-    linuxPackageSymlinks <++= (normalizedName in Universal, mappings in Universal) map { (pkg, mappings) =>
+    linuxPackageSymlinks <++= (normalizedName in Universal, mappings in Universal, defaultLinuxInstallLocation) map { (pkg, mappings, installLocation) =>
         for {
           (file, name) <- mappings
           if !file.isDirectory
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ trait GenericPackageSettings
         } yield LinuxSymlink("/usr/" + name, installLocation+"/"+pkg+"/"+name)
     },
     // Map configuration files
-    linuxPackageSymlinks <++= (normalizedName in Universal, mappings in Universal) map { (pkg, mappings) =>
+    linuxPackageSymlinks <++= (normalizedName in Universal, mappings in Universal, defaultLinuxInstallLocation) map { (pkg, mappings, installLocation) =>
       val needsConfLink =
         mappings exists { case (file, name) =>
           (name startsWith "conf/") && !file.isDirectory
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/Keys.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/Keys.scala
index d85adaeb9..9644686f4 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/Keys.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/Keys.scala
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ object Keys extends linux.Keys
   // TODO - Do these keys belong here?
   def normalizedName = sbt.Keys.normalizedName
 
-  // These keys are used by the JavaApp archetype.
+  // These keys are used by the JavaApp/JavaServer archetypes.
   val makeBashScript = TaskKey[Option[File]]("makeBashScript", "Creates or discovers the bash script used by this project.")
   val bashScriptDefines = TaskKey[Seq[String]]("bashScriptDefines", "A list of definitions that should be written to the bash file template.")
   val bashScriptExtraDefines = TaskKey[Seq[String]]("bashScriptExtraDefines", "A list of extra definitions that should be written to the bash file template.")
@@ -28,4 +28,5 @@ object Keys extends linux.Keys
          |  APP_NAME - the name of the app
          |  APP_DEFINES - the defines to go into the app
          |  """.stripMargin)
+  val defaultLinuxInstallLocation = SettingKey[String]("defaultLinuxInstallLocation", "The location where we will install generic linux packages.")
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/archetypes/JavaServerApplication.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/archetypes/JavaServerApplication.scala
index 6196ad38e..30b0934cc 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/archetypes/JavaServerApplication.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/archetypes/JavaServerApplication.scala
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ object JavaServerAppPackaging {
 
   def debianUpstartSettings: Seq[Setting[_]] =
     Seq(
-      debianUpstartScriptReplacements <<= (maintainer in Debian, packageSummary in Debian, normalizedName, sbt.Keys.version) map { (author, descr, name, version) =>
+      debianUpstartScriptReplacements <<= (maintainer in Debian, packageSummary in Debian, normalizedName, sbt.Keys.version, defaultLinuxInstallLocation) map { (author, descr, name, version, installLocation) =>
         // TODO name-version is copied from UniversalPlugin. This should be consolidated into a setting (install location...)
-        val chdir = GenericPackageSettings.installLocation + "/" + name + "/bin"
+        val chdir = installLocation + "/" + name + "/bin"
         JavaAppUpstartScript.makeReplacements(author = author, descr = descr, execScript = name, chdir = chdir)
       },
       debianMakeUpstartScript <<= (debianUpstartScriptReplacements, normalizedName, target in Universal) map makeDebianUpstartScript,
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/debian/DebianPlugin.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/debian/DebianPlugin.scala
index f1ccbb59d..a3485ad8b 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/debian/DebianPlugin.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/debian/DebianPlugin.scala
@@ -111,16 +111,6 @@ trait DebianPlugin extends Plugin with linux.LinuxPlugin {
           chmod(cfile, "0644")
           cfile
       },
-      /*debianLinksfile <<= (name, linuxPackageSymlinks, target) map { (name, symlinks, dir) =>
-      val lfile = dir / "DEBIAN" / (name + ".links")
-      val content =
-        for {
-          LinuxSymlink(link, destination) <- symlinks
-        } yield link + "   " + destination
-      IO.writeLines(lfile, content)
-      chmod(lfile, "0644")
-      lfile
-    },*/
       debianExplodedPackage <<= (linuxPackageMappings, debianControlFile, debianMaintainerScripts, debianConffilesFile, debianControlScriptsReplacements, linuxPackageSymlinks, target)
         map { (mappings, _, maintScripts, _, replacements, symlinks, t) =>
 
@@ -162,7 +152,7 @@ trait DebianPlugin extends Plugin with linux.LinuxPlugin {
             if file.isFile
             if !(name startsWith "DEBIAN")
             if !(name contains "debian-binary")
-            // TODO - detect symlinks...
+            // TODO - detect symlinks with Java7 (when we can) rather than hackery...
             if file.getCanonicalPath == file.getAbsolutePath
             fixedName = if (name startsWith "/") name drop 1 else name
           } yield Hashing.md5Sum(file) + "  " + fixedName
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/linux/LinuxPlugin.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/linux/LinuxPlugin.scala
index 0f849316c..c7802870b 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/linux/LinuxPlugin.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/linux/LinuxPlugin.scala
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ trait LinuxPlugin extends Plugin {
    * @param dir - use some directory, e.g. target.value
    * @param files
    */
-  def packageTemplateMapping(dir: File, files: String*) = LinuxPackageMapping(files map ((dir, _)))
+  def packageTemplateMapping(files: String*)(dir: File = new File(sys.props("java.io.tmpdir"))) = LinuxPackageMapping(files map ((dir, _)))
 
   // TODO - we'd like a set of conventions to take universal mappings and create linux package mappings.
 
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmHelper.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmHelper.scala
index afedeee98..ab6e979e7 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmHelper.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmHelper.scala
@@ -102,6 +102,6 @@ object RpmHelper {
     }
   }
   
-  def evalMacro(macro: String): String = 
-    Process(Seq("rpm", "--eval", '%' + macro)) !!
+  def evalMacro(mcro: String): String = 
+    Process(Seq("rpm", "--eval", '%' + mcro)).!!
 }
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmMetadata.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmMetadata.scala
index c7ff615c6..a140d94b7 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmMetadata.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmMetadata.scala
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ case class RpmMetadata(
 case class RpmDescription(
     license: Option[String] = None,
     distribution: Option[String] = None,
-    //vendor: Option[String] = None,
     url: Option[String] = None,
     group: Option[String] = None,
     packager: Option[String] = None,
@@ -75,6 +74,34 @@ case class RpmSpec(meta: RpmMetadata,
     mappings: Seq[LinuxPackageMapping] = Seq.empty,
     symlinks: Seq[LinuxSymlink] = Seq.empty) {
 
+
+  // TODO - here we want to validate that all the data we have is ok to place
+  // in the RPM.  e.g. the Description/vendor etc. must meet specific requirements.
+  // For now we just check existence.
+  def validate(log: Logger): Unit = {
+    def ensureOr[T](value: T, msg: String, validator: T => Boolean): Boolean = {
+      if(validator(value)) true
+      else {
+        log.error(msg)
+        false
+      }
+    }
+    def isNonEmpty(s: String): Boolean = !s.isEmpty
+    val emptyValidators =
+       Seq(
+         ensureOr(meta.name, "`name in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide one.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.version, "`version in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a vaid version for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.release, "`rpmRelease in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a valid release number for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.arch, "`packageArchitecture in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a valid archiecture for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.vendor, "`rpmVendor in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a valid vendor for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.os, "`rpmOs in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a valid os vaue for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.summary, "`packageSummary in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a valid summary for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty),
+         ensureOr(meta.description, "`packageDescription in Rpm` is empty.  Please provide a valid description for the rpm SPEC.", isNonEmpty)
+       )
+    // TODO - Continue validating after this point?
+    if(!emptyValidators.forall(identity)) sys.error("There are issues with the rpm spec data.")
+  }
+
   private[this]  def fixFilename(n: String): String = {
     val tmp = 
       if(n startsWith "/") n
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmPlugin.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmPlugin.scala
index a2d811ebf..adf733e9e 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmPlugin.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/rpm/RpmPlugin.scala
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ trait RpmPlugin extends Plugin with LinuxPlugin {
     rpmSpecConfig <<=
       (rpmMetadata, rpmDescription, rpmDependencies, rpmScripts, linuxPackageMappings, linuxPackageSymlinks) map RpmSpec,
     packageBin <<= (rpmSpecConfig, target, streams) map { (spec, dir, s) =>
+        spec.validate(s.log)
         RpmHelper.buildRpm(spec, dir, s.log)
     },
     rpmLint <<= (packageBin, streams) map { (rpm, s) =>
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/universal/ZipHelper.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/universal/ZipHelper.scala
index 61f39a910..17e65efcf 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/universal/ZipHelper.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/universal/ZipHelper.scala
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ object ZipHelper {
     }
   
   /** Creates a zip file attempting to give files the appropriate unix permissions using Java 6 APIs.
+   * Note: This is known to have some odd issues on MacOSX whereby executable permissions
+   * are not actually discovered, even though the Info-Zip headers exist and work on
+   * many variants of linux.  Yay Apple.
    * @param sources   The files to include in the zip file.
    * @param outputZip The location of the output file.
    */
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/windows/WixHelper.scala b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/windows/WixHelper.scala
index 6e29950a1..b5c7d3065 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/windows/WixHelper.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/windows/WixHelper.scala
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ object WixHelper {
               </Component>
             </DirectoryRef>
             ComponentInfo(id, xml)
+      // TODO - To have shortcuts, you MUST put something in the registry.  Here,
+      // We should have shortcuts actually provide us with what they want in the registry,
+      // rather than forcing it to be something.
+      // Also, we need some mechanism to ensure the start menu folder is removed in the event
+      // that we remove all menu items.
       case AddShortCuts(targets, workingDir) =>
         val id = cleanStringForId("shortcut_" + makeGUID).takeRight(67)  // Room for "_SC"
         val xml =