diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-CLIFFORD b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-CLIFFORD
index 10c141a9e..b86c3dc73 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-CLIFFORD
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-CLIFFORD
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 
+*) 2003-11-12 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
+
+ - Added package pptp-linux to base repository
+ - Fixed python shared files problem (don't force rebuild all python mods)
+
 *) 2003-11-10 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
  - Fixed ncurses in stage 9 (some more one-step-install.patch stuff)
diff --git a/package/base/pptp-linux/pptp-linux.desc b/package/base/pptp-linux/pptp-linux.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ea0b05e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/pptp-linux/pptp-linux.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
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+
+[I] Linux PPTP Client
+
+[T] PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the
+[T] proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows
+[T] connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used
+[T] by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.
+
+[A] C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
+[M] Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
+[M] Rene Rebe <rene@rocklinux.org>
+
+[C] extra/network
+
+[U] http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
+
+[L] OpenSource
+[S] Stable
+[V] 1.3.1
+[P] X -----5---9 664.500
+
+[D] 0 pptp-linux-1.3.1.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pptpclient/
+
diff --git a/package/base/python/dont-force-rebuild-all.patch b/package/base/python/dont-force-rebuild-all.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..811382a7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/python/dont-force-rebuild-all.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+--- ./Makefile.pre.in.orig	2003-11-12 11:31:18.721639608 +0100
++++ ./Makefile.pre.in	2003-11-12 11:31:55.176097688 +0100
+@@ -703,19 +703,19 @@
+ 	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/LICENSE $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/LICENSE.txt
+ 	PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)  $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		./$(BUILDPYTHON) -Wi -tt $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-d $(LIBDEST) -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST) \
+ 		-x 'badsyntax|site-packages' $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
+ 	PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		./$(BUILDPYTHON) -Wi -tt -O $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-d $(LIBDEST) -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST) \
+ 		-x 'badsyntax|site-packages' $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
+ 	PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)  $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		./$(BUILDPYTHON) -Wi -t $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages \
+ 		-x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
+ 	PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		./$(BUILDPYTHON) -Wi -t -O $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages \
+ 		-x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
+ 
+ # Create the PLATDIR source directory, if one wasn't distributed..