diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f801c72..99b2782 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+*~
+*.log
+*.tar.gz
+*.rpm
+Sys-Virt-v*/
+x86_64/
 SOURCES/Sys-Virt-v8.0.0.tar.gz
-/Sys-Virt-v8.0.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/.perl-Sys-Virt.metadata b/.perl-Sys-Virt.metadata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04d17a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.perl-Sys-Virt.metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8b2ec05c0cd17a0d161e74d9ca4120be3f921f7b Sys-Virt-v8.0.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/dead.package.c9s b/dead.package.c9s
deleted file mode 100644
index 6db2b81..0000000
--- a/dead.package.c9s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-perl-Sys-Virt package is retired for CS-428
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/update-patches.pl b/update-patches.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..244fd8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update-patches.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# Update the local patches and RPM spec with patches from
+# an upstream tree with matching branch name.
+#
+# For example
+#
+#   - Checkout upstream GIT repo for virt-viewer
+#   - Create a branch name matching current RHEL (eg rhel-6.4)
+#   - Populate the branch by cherry-picking patches from master
+#
+# This script will then
+#
+#   - Setup the upstream GIT repo as a remote named 'upstream'
+#   - Extract version number from RPM spec
+#   - Look for a tag 'v$VERSION' in upstream GIT
+#   - Run 'git format-patches v$VERSION..upstream/rhel-6.4'
+#   - Re-write the RPM spec to update all PatchNNN lines
+#
+# The only manual step required is to fill in the changelog
+#
+
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+my $gitupstream = "git+ssh://git.engineering.redhat.com/srv/git/users/berrange/perl-Sys-Virt-rhel.git";
+my $rpmspec = "perl-Sys-Virt.spec";
+
+open SPEC, "$rpmspec" or die "cannot read $rpmspec: $!";
+my @spec = <SPEC>;
+close SPEC;
+
+my $version;
+
+foreach my $line (@spec) {
+    if ($line =~ /^Version:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) {
+	$version = $1;
+    }
+}
+
+die "cannot find Version: line in RPM spec"
+    unless $version;
+
+my $gittag = "v" . $version;
+
+open GIT, "-|", "git", "branch" or die "cannot run git branch: $!";
+
+my $gitbranch;
+
+while (<GIT>) {
+    if (/^\*\s+(\S+)\s*$/) {
+	$gitbranch = $1;
+    }
+}
+
+close GIT;
+
+die "cannot find current git branch" unless $gitbranch;
+
+die "can only deal with rhel/stream branches" unless $gitbranch =~ /(rhel|stream)/;
+
+my $haveupstream;
+
+open GIT, "-|", "git", "remote" or die "cannot run git remote: $!";
+while (<GIT>) {
+    if (/upstream/) {
+	$haveupstream = 1;
+    }
+}
+
+close GIT;
+
+unless ($haveupstream) {
+    `git remote add upstream $gitupstream`;
+}
+
+`git fetch upstream`;
+
+
+$haveupstream = 0;
+
+open GIT, "-|", "git", "branch", "-a" or die "cannot find git branch -a: $!";
+while (<GIT>) {
+    if (m,upstream/$gitbranch,) {
+	$haveupstream = 1;
+    }
+}
+close GIT;
+
+die "cannot find upstream/$gitbranch" unless $haveupstream;
+
+`git format-patch --no-signature -N $gittag..upstream/$gitbranch`;
+
+opendir DH, "." or die "cannot read current directory: $!";
+
+my @patches
+    = grep {
+	/^\d\d\d.*\.patch/
+    } readdir(DH);
+
+closedir DH;
+
+@patches = sort @patches;
+
+shift @patches if @patches && $patches[0] =~ /0000-/;
+
+open SPEC, ">$rpmspec" or die "cannot update $rpmspec: $!";
+
+foreach my $line (@spec) {
+    print SPEC $line unless $line =~ /Patch/ && $line !~ /Patch0:/;
+
+    my $i;
+    if ($line =~ /Patch0/) {
+	for ($i = 0 ; $i <= $#patches ; $i++) {
+	    printf SPEC "Patch%d: %s\n", $i+1, $patches[$i];
+	}
+    }
+}
+
+close SPEC or die "cannot save $rpmspec: $!";
+
+if (@patches) {
+    `git add *.patch $rpmspec`;
+}