This isn't for everyone. Some people like their package manager to install their configuration management tool.
Others like to use things like the omnibus install of chef.
This is like the latter.
In the meantime, here are my notes on how I got it working.
My Build Script doesn't apply the patches, but a side effect of running it is that you'll have a reusable build environment.
Instructions on how to use the resulting zip files will be in a separate post.