diff --git a/rpmlint.config.el4 b/rpmlint.config.el4
index acc24d9..356368d 100644
--- a/rpmlint.config.el4
+++ b/rpmlint.config.el4
@@ -10,353 +10,8 @@ import sys
 from Config import *
 import Pkg
 
-
-setOption("CompressExtension", "gz")
-setOption("DefaultPythonVersion", sys.version[:3])
-setOption("KernelModuleRPMsOK", False)
-setOption("MaxLineLength", 80)
-setOption("NetworkEnabled", True)
-setOption("ReleaseExtension", '\.(fc|rhe?l|el)\d+(?=\.|$)')
-setOption("UseDefaultRunlevels", False)
-setOption("UseEpoch", False)
-setOption("UseUTF8", True)
-setOption("UseVersionInChangeLog", True)
-setOption("ValidSrcPerms", (0664, 0644, ))
-
-setOption("ValidShells", (
-    "<lua>",
-    "/bin/sh",
-    "/bin/bash",
-    "/sbin/ldconfig",
-    "/usr/bin/perl",
-    "/usr/bin/python",
-))
-
-setOption("DanglingSymlinkExceptions", (
-    ['consolehelper$', 'usermode'],
-    ['consolehelper-gtk$', 'usermode-gtk'],
-))
-
-setOption("ValidLicenses", (
-    # These are the short names for all of the Fedora approved licenses.
-    # The master list is kept here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
-    # Last synced with revision "1.85, 21 October 2010" of that page.
-    'AAL',
-    'Abstyles',
-    'Adobe',
-    'ADSL',
-    'AFL',
-    'AGPLv1',
-    'AGPLv3',
-    'AGPLv3 with exceptions',
-    'AMDPLPA',
-    'AML',
-    'AMPAS BSD',
-    'APSL 2.0',
-    'APSL 2.0+',
-    'ARL',
-    'Artistic 2.0',
-    'Artistic clarified',
-    'ASL 1.0',
-    'ASL 1.0+',
-    'ASL 1.1',
-    'ASL 1.1+',
-    'ASL 2.0',
-    'ASL 2.0+',
-    'Barr',
-    'BeOpen',
-    'BitTorrent',
-    'Boost',
-    'BSD',
-    'BSD Protection',
-    'BSD with advertising',
-    'CATOSL',
-    'CC0',
-    'CeCILL',
-    'CeCILL-B',
-    'CeCILL-C',
-    'CDDL',
-    'CNRI',
-    'Condor',
-    'Copyright only',
-    'CPAL',
-    'CPL',
-    'Crossword',
-    'Crystal Stacker',
-    'DOC',
-    'Dotseqn',
-    'dvipdfm',
-    'ECL 1.0',
-    'ECL 2.0',
-    'eCos',
-    'EFL 2.0',
-    'EFL 2.0+',
-    'Entessa',
-    'EPL',
-    'ERPL',
-    'EU Datagrid',
-    'EUPL 1.1',
-    'Eurosym',
-    'Fair',
-    'FTL',
-    'Giftware',
-    'GL2PS',
-    'Glide',
-    'gnuplot',
-    'GPL+',
-    'GPL+ or Artistic',
-    'GPL+ with exceptions',
-    'GPLv1',
-    'GPLv2 or Artistic',
-    'GPLv2+ or Artistic',
-    'GPLv2',
-    'GPLv2 with exceptions',
-    'GPLv2+',
-    'GPLv2+ with exceptions',
-    'GPLv3',
-    'GPLv3 with exceptions',
-    'GPLv3+',
-    'GPLv3+ with exceptions',
-    'IBM',
-    'IJG',
-    'ImageMagick',
-    'iMatix',
-    'Imlib2',
-    'Intel ACPI',
-    'Interbase',
-    'ISC',
-    'Jabber',
-    'JasPer',
-    'JPython',
-    'Knuth',
-    'Latex2e',
-    'LBNL BSD',
-    'LGPLv2',
-    'LGPLv2 with exceptions',
-    'LGPLv2+',
-    'LGPLv2+ or Artistic',
-    'LGPLv2+ with exceptions',
-    'LGPLv3',
-    'LGPLv3 with exceptions',
-    'LGPLv3+',
-    'LGPLv3+ with exceptions',
-    'Lhcyr',
-    'libtiff',
-    'LLGPL',
-    'Logica',
-    'LPL',
-    'LPPL',
-    'mecab-ipadic',
-    'MirOS',
-    'MIT',
-    'MIT with advertising',
-    'mod_macro',
-    'Motosoto',
-    'MPLv1.0',
-    'MPLv1.0+',
-    'MPLv1.1',
-    'MPLv1.1+',
-    'MS-PL',
-    'MS-RL',
-    'Naumen',
-    'NCSA',
-    'NetCDF',
-    'Netscape',
-    'Newmat',
-    'Newsletr',
-    'NGPL',
-    'Nokia',
-    'NOSL',
-    'Noweb',
-    'OML',
-    'OpenLDAP',
-    'OpenPBS',
-    'OpenSSL',
-    'OReilly',
-    'OSL 1.0',
-    'OSL 1.0+',
-    'OSL 1.1',
-    'OSL 1.1+',
-    'OSL 2.0',
-    'OSL 2.0+',
-    'OSL 2.1',
-    'OSL 2.1+',
-    'OSL 3.0',
-    'OSL 3.0+',
-    'Phorum',
-    'PHP',
-    'PlainTeX',
-    'Plexus',
-    'PostgreSQL',
-    'psutils',
-    'Public Domain',
-    'Python',
-    'Qhull',
-    'QPL',
-    'Rdisc',
-    'RiceBSD',
-    'Romio',
-    'RPSL',
-    'Rsfs',
-    'Ruby',
-    'Saxpath',
-    'SCEA',
-    'SCRIP',
-    'Sendmail',
-    'Sleepycat',
-    'SISSL',
-    'SLIB',
-    'SNIA',
-    'SPL',
-    'TCL',
-    'Teeworlds',
-    'Threeparttable',
-    'TMate',
-    'TOSL',
-    'TPL',
-    'UCD',
-    'Vim',
-    'VNLSL',
-    'VOSTROM',
-    'VSL',
-    'W3C',
-    'Webmin',
-    'Wsuipa',
-    'WTFPL',
-    'wxWidgets',
-    'Xerox',
-    'xinetd',
-    'XSkat',
-    'YPLv1.1',
-    'Zed',
-    'Zend',
-    'zlib',
-    'zlib with acknowledgement',
-    'ZPLv1.0',
-    'ZPLv1.0+',
-    'ZPLv2.0',
-    'ZPLv2.0+',
-    'ZPLv2.1',
-    'ZPLv2.1+',
-    # Documentation licenses
-    'CDL',
-    'FBSDDL',
-    'GFDL',
-    'IEEE',
-    'LDPL',
-    'OFSFDL',
-    'Open Publication',
-    'Public Use',
-    # Content licenses
-    'CC-BY',
-    'CC-BY-ND',
-    'CC-BY-SA',
-    'DMTF',
-    'DSL',
-    'EFML',
-    'Free Art',
-    'GeoGratis',
-    'Green OpenMusic',
-    'OAL',
-    # Font licenses
-    'AMS',
-    'Arphic',
-    'Baekmuk',
-    'Bitstream Vera',
-    'DoubleStroke',
-    'Hershey',
-    'IPA',
-    'Liberation',
-    'Lucida',
-    'MgOpen',
-    'mplus',
-    'OFL',
-    'PTFL',
-    'STIX',
-    'Utopia',
-    'Wadalab',
-    'XANO',
-    # Others
-    'Redistributable, no modification permitted',
-    'Freely redistributable without restriction',
-))
-
-setOption('SystemLibPaths', ('/lib', '/lib64', '/usr/lib', '/usr/lib64'))
-
-# Get standard users and groups from the setup package's uidgid file
-setOption('StandardUsers', [])
-setOption('StandardGroups', [])
-setup_pkg = None
-try:
-    setup_pkg = Pkg.InstalledPkg('setup')
-except:
-    pass
-if setup_pkg:
-    users = set()
-    groups = set()
-    uidgid_regex = re.compile(r'^\s*(\S+)\s+(-|\d+)\s+(-|\d+|\(\d+\))\s')
-    for uidgid_file in [x for x in setup_pkg.files() if x.endswith('/uidgid')]:
-        if os.path.exists(uidgid_file):
-            fobj = open(uidgid_file)
-            try:
-                for line in fobj.read().strip().splitlines():
-                    res = uidgid_regex.search(line)
-                    if res:
-                        name = res.group(1)
-                        if res.group(2) != '-':
-                            users.add(name)
-                        if res.group(3) != '-' and not '(' in res.group(3):
-                            groups.add(name)
-                    del res
-                del line
-            finally:
-                fobj.close()
-            del fobj
-    setOption('StandardUsers', sorted(users))
-    setOption('StandardGroups', sorted(groups))
-    del uidgid_regex, uidgid_file, users, groups
-del setup_pkg
-
-# Output filters
-addFilter("source-or-patch-not-compressed")
-addFilter("%mklibname")
-addFilter("no-dependency-on (perl|python)-base")
-addFilter("no-dependency-on locales-")
-addFilter("(python|perl5)-naming-policy-not-applied")
-addFilter("no-(packager-tag|signature)")
-addFilter("incoherent-version-in-name")
-addFilter("invalid-build-requires")
-addFilter("ghost-files-without-postin")
-addFilter("postin-without-ghost-file-creation")
-addFilter("no-major-in-name")
-addFilter("no-provides")
-addFilter("executable-in-library-package")
-addFilter("non-versioned-file-in-library-package")
-addFilter("requires-on-release")
-addFilter("jar-not-indexed")
-addFilter("outside-libdir-files")
-addFilter("-debuginfo.* no-documentation")
-addFilter("-debuginfo.* /usr/lib/debug/")
-addFilter("non-standard-dir-in-usr libexec")
-addFilter("^gpg-pubkey:")
-addFilter(" doc-file-dependency .* /bin/sh$")
-addFilter("hardcoded-library-path .*/lib/udev(/|$)")
-addFilter("not-standard-release-extension")
-addFilter("explicit-lib-dependency (liberation-fonts|libertas-.*-firmware|libvirt$|.*-(java|python)$)")
-addFilter("filename-too-long-for-joliet")
-addFilter("symlink-should-be-")
-addFilter("dangling-\S*symlink /usr/share/doc/HTML/\S+/common .+/common$")
-addFilter("hidden-file-or-dir .*/man5/\.k5login\.5[^/]+$")
-addFilter("blender.+ (wrong-script-interpreter|non-executable-script) .+/blender/.+\.py.*BPY.*")
-# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/496737, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/646455
-for pkg, exe in (("coreutils", "/bin/su"),
-                 ("krb5-workstation", "/usr/kerberos/bin/ksu"),
-                 ("passwd", "/usr/bin/passwd"),
-                 ("sudo", "/usr/bin/sudo(edit)?"),
-                 ("upstart", "/sbin/initctl"),
-                 ("usermode", "/usr/sbin/userhelper")):
-    addFilter("%s.* (setuid-binary|non-standard-executable-perm) %s (root )?04"
-              % (pkg, exe))
+# Inherit the base config and build from there.
+exec(open("/usr/share/rpmlint/config","rb").read())
 
 # Fedora 12 and newer no longer need a buildroot defined, to have the buildroot cleaned at the beginning
 # of %install, and do not need to define a %clean section unless the default is invalid.
diff --git a/rpmlint.config.el5 b/rpmlint.config.el5
index acc24d9..356368d 100644
--- a/rpmlint.config.el5
+++ b/rpmlint.config.el5
@@ -10,353 +10,8 @@ import sys
 from Config import *
 import Pkg
 
-
-setOption("CompressExtension", "gz")
-setOption("DefaultPythonVersion", sys.version[:3])
-setOption("KernelModuleRPMsOK", False)
-setOption("MaxLineLength", 80)
-setOption("NetworkEnabled", True)
-setOption("ReleaseExtension", '\.(fc|rhe?l|el)\d+(?=\.|$)')
-setOption("UseDefaultRunlevels", False)
-setOption("UseEpoch", False)
-setOption("UseUTF8", True)
-setOption("UseVersionInChangeLog", True)
-setOption("ValidSrcPerms", (0664, 0644, ))
-
-setOption("ValidShells", (
-    "<lua>",
-    "/bin/sh",
-    "/bin/bash",
-    "/sbin/ldconfig",
-    "/usr/bin/perl",
-    "/usr/bin/python",
-))
-
-setOption("DanglingSymlinkExceptions", (
-    ['consolehelper$', 'usermode'],
-    ['consolehelper-gtk$', 'usermode-gtk'],
-))
-
-setOption("ValidLicenses", (
-    # These are the short names for all of the Fedora approved licenses.
-    # The master list is kept here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
-    # Last synced with revision "1.85, 21 October 2010" of that page.
-    'AAL',
-    'Abstyles',
-    'Adobe',
-    'ADSL',
-    'AFL',
-    'AGPLv1',
-    'AGPLv3',
-    'AGPLv3 with exceptions',
-    'AMDPLPA',
-    'AML',
-    'AMPAS BSD',
-    'APSL 2.0',
-    'APSL 2.0+',
-    'ARL',
-    'Artistic 2.0',
-    'Artistic clarified',
-    'ASL 1.0',
-    'ASL 1.0+',
-    'ASL 1.1',
-    'ASL 1.1+',
-    'ASL 2.0',
-    'ASL 2.0+',
-    'Barr',
-    'BeOpen',
-    'BitTorrent',
-    'Boost',
-    'BSD',
-    'BSD Protection',
-    'BSD with advertising',
-    'CATOSL',
-    'CC0',
-    'CeCILL',
-    'CeCILL-B',
-    'CeCILL-C',
-    'CDDL',
-    'CNRI',
-    'Condor',
-    'Copyright only',
-    'CPAL',
-    'CPL',
-    'Crossword',
-    'Crystal Stacker',
-    'DOC',
-    'Dotseqn',
-    'dvipdfm',
-    'ECL 1.0',
-    'ECL 2.0',
-    'eCos',
-    'EFL 2.0',
-    'EFL 2.0+',
-    'Entessa',
-    'EPL',
-    'ERPL',
-    'EU Datagrid',
-    'EUPL 1.1',
-    'Eurosym',
-    'Fair',
-    'FTL',
-    'Giftware',
-    'GL2PS',
-    'Glide',
-    'gnuplot',
-    'GPL+',
-    'GPL+ or Artistic',
-    'GPL+ with exceptions',
-    'GPLv1',
-    'GPLv2 or Artistic',
-    'GPLv2+ or Artistic',
-    'GPLv2',
-    'GPLv2 with exceptions',
-    'GPLv2+',
-    'GPLv2+ with exceptions',
-    'GPLv3',
-    'GPLv3 with exceptions',
-    'GPLv3+',
-    'GPLv3+ with exceptions',
-    'IBM',
-    'IJG',
-    'ImageMagick',
-    'iMatix',
-    'Imlib2',
-    'Intel ACPI',
-    'Interbase',
-    'ISC',
-    'Jabber',
-    'JasPer',
-    'JPython',
-    'Knuth',
-    'Latex2e',
-    'LBNL BSD',
-    'LGPLv2',
-    'LGPLv2 with exceptions',
-    'LGPLv2+',
-    'LGPLv2+ or Artistic',
-    'LGPLv2+ with exceptions',
-    'LGPLv3',
-    'LGPLv3 with exceptions',
-    'LGPLv3+',
-    'LGPLv3+ with exceptions',
-    'Lhcyr',
-    'libtiff',
-    'LLGPL',
-    'Logica',
-    'LPL',
-    'LPPL',
-    'mecab-ipadic',
-    'MirOS',
-    'MIT',
-    'MIT with advertising',
-    'mod_macro',
-    'Motosoto',
-    'MPLv1.0',
-    'MPLv1.0+',
-    'MPLv1.1',
-    'MPLv1.1+',
-    'MS-PL',
-    'MS-RL',
-    'Naumen',
-    'NCSA',
-    'NetCDF',
-    'Netscape',
-    'Newmat',
-    'Newsletr',
-    'NGPL',
-    'Nokia',
-    'NOSL',
-    'Noweb',
-    'OML',
-    'OpenLDAP',
-    'OpenPBS',
-    'OpenSSL',
-    'OReilly',
-    'OSL 1.0',
-    'OSL 1.0+',
-    'OSL 1.1',
-    'OSL 1.1+',
-    'OSL 2.0',
-    'OSL 2.0+',
-    'OSL 2.1',
-    'OSL 2.1+',
-    'OSL 3.0',
-    'OSL 3.0+',
-    'Phorum',
-    'PHP',
-    'PlainTeX',
-    'Plexus',
-    'PostgreSQL',
-    'psutils',
-    'Public Domain',
-    'Python',
-    'Qhull',
-    'QPL',
-    'Rdisc',
-    'RiceBSD',
-    'Romio',
-    'RPSL',
-    'Rsfs',
-    'Ruby',
-    'Saxpath',
-    'SCEA',
-    'SCRIP',
-    'Sendmail',
-    'Sleepycat',
-    'SISSL',
-    'SLIB',
-    'SNIA',
-    'SPL',
-    'TCL',
-    'Teeworlds',
-    'Threeparttable',
-    'TMate',
-    'TOSL',
-    'TPL',
-    'UCD',
-    'Vim',
-    'VNLSL',
-    'VOSTROM',
-    'VSL',
-    'W3C',
-    'Webmin',
-    'Wsuipa',
-    'WTFPL',
-    'wxWidgets',
-    'Xerox',
-    'xinetd',
-    'XSkat',
-    'YPLv1.1',
-    'Zed',
-    'Zend',
-    'zlib',
-    'zlib with acknowledgement',
-    'ZPLv1.0',
-    'ZPLv1.0+',
-    'ZPLv2.0',
-    'ZPLv2.0+',
-    'ZPLv2.1',
-    'ZPLv2.1+',
-    # Documentation licenses
-    'CDL',
-    'FBSDDL',
-    'GFDL',
-    'IEEE',
-    'LDPL',
-    'OFSFDL',
-    'Open Publication',
-    'Public Use',
-    # Content licenses
-    'CC-BY',
-    'CC-BY-ND',
-    'CC-BY-SA',
-    'DMTF',
-    'DSL',
-    'EFML',
-    'Free Art',
-    'GeoGratis',
-    'Green OpenMusic',
-    'OAL',
-    # Font licenses
-    'AMS',
-    'Arphic',
-    'Baekmuk',
-    'Bitstream Vera',
-    'DoubleStroke',
-    'Hershey',
-    'IPA',
-    'Liberation',
-    'Lucida',
-    'MgOpen',
-    'mplus',
-    'OFL',
-    'PTFL',
-    'STIX',
-    'Utopia',
-    'Wadalab',
-    'XANO',
-    # Others
-    'Redistributable, no modification permitted',
-    'Freely redistributable without restriction',
-))
-
-setOption('SystemLibPaths', ('/lib', '/lib64', '/usr/lib', '/usr/lib64'))
-
-# Get standard users and groups from the setup package's uidgid file
-setOption('StandardUsers', [])
-setOption('StandardGroups', [])
-setup_pkg = None
-try:
-    setup_pkg = Pkg.InstalledPkg('setup')
-except:
-    pass
-if setup_pkg:
-    users = set()
-    groups = set()
-    uidgid_regex = re.compile(r'^\s*(\S+)\s+(-|\d+)\s+(-|\d+|\(\d+\))\s')
-    for uidgid_file in [x for x in setup_pkg.files() if x.endswith('/uidgid')]:
-        if os.path.exists(uidgid_file):
-            fobj = open(uidgid_file)
-            try:
-                for line in fobj.read().strip().splitlines():
-                    res = uidgid_regex.search(line)
-                    if res:
-                        name = res.group(1)
-                        if res.group(2) != '-':
-                            users.add(name)
-                        if res.group(3) != '-' and not '(' in res.group(3):
-                            groups.add(name)
-                    del res
-                del line
-            finally:
-                fobj.close()
-            del fobj
-    setOption('StandardUsers', sorted(users))
-    setOption('StandardGroups', sorted(groups))
-    del uidgid_regex, uidgid_file, users, groups
-del setup_pkg
-
-# Output filters
-addFilter("source-or-patch-not-compressed")
-addFilter("%mklibname")
-addFilter("no-dependency-on (perl|python)-base")
-addFilter("no-dependency-on locales-")
-addFilter("(python|perl5)-naming-policy-not-applied")
-addFilter("no-(packager-tag|signature)")
-addFilter("incoherent-version-in-name")
-addFilter("invalid-build-requires")
-addFilter("ghost-files-without-postin")
-addFilter("postin-without-ghost-file-creation")
-addFilter("no-major-in-name")
-addFilter("no-provides")
-addFilter("executable-in-library-package")
-addFilter("non-versioned-file-in-library-package")
-addFilter("requires-on-release")
-addFilter("jar-not-indexed")
-addFilter("outside-libdir-files")
-addFilter("-debuginfo.* no-documentation")
-addFilter("-debuginfo.* /usr/lib/debug/")
-addFilter("non-standard-dir-in-usr libexec")
-addFilter("^gpg-pubkey:")
-addFilter(" doc-file-dependency .* /bin/sh$")
-addFilter("hardcoded-library-path .*/lib/udev(/|$)")
-addFilter("not-standard-release-extension")
-addFilter("explicit-lib-dependency (liberation-fonts|libertas-.*-firmware|libvirt$|.*-(java|python)$)")
-addFilter("filename-too-long-for-joliet")
-addFilter("symlink-should-be-")
-addFilter("dangling-\S*symlink /usr/share/doc/HTML/\S+/common .+/common$")
-addFilter("hidden-file-or-dir .*/man5/\.k5login\.5[^/]+$")
-addFilter("blender.+ (wrong-script-interpreter|non-executable-script) .+/blender/.+\.py.*BPY.*")
-# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/496737, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/646455
-for pkg, exe in (("coreutils", "/bin/su"),
-                 ("krb5-workstation", "/usr/kerberos/bin/ksu"),
-                 ("passwd", "/usr/bin/passwd"),
-                 ("sudo", "/usr/bin/sudo(edit)?"),
-                 ("upstart", "/sbin/initctl"),
-                 ("usermode", "/usr/sbin/userhelper")):
-    addFilter("%s.* (setuid-binary|non-standard-executable-perm) %s (root )?04"
-              % (pkg, exe))
+# Inherit the base config and build from there.
+exec(open("/usr/share/rpmlint/config","rb").read())
 
 # Fedora 12 and newer no longer need a buildroot defined, to have the buildroot cleaned at the beginning
 # of %install, and do not need to define a %clean section unless the default is invalid.
diff --git a/rpmlint.spec b/rpmlint.spec
index bdc5b5f..bf8798b 100644
--- a/rpmlint.spec
+++ b/rpmlint.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           rpmlint
 Version:        1.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 Summary:        Tool for checking common errors in RPM packages
 
 Group:          Development/Tools
@@ -95,11 +95,16 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Dec  7 2010 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.0-3
+- fix typo in changelog
+- %% comment out item in changelog
+- simplify el4/el5 config files (thanks to Ville Skyttä)
+
 * Mon Dec  6 2010 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.0-2
-- add support for el5-rpmlint, el6-rpmlint
+- add support for el4-rpmlint, el5-rpmlint
 - disable no-cleaning-of-buildroot checks for Fedora
 - disable no-buildroot-tag check for Fedora
-- disable no-%clean-section check for Fedora
+- disable no-%%clean-section check for Fedora
 
 * Mon Nov  1 2010 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> - 1.0-1
 - Update to 1.0; fixes #637956, and #639823.