Nope kvdr is packaged. vdr is missing yet. I currently wrap my head around it on how vdr could work out of the box.
My brain hurts. I could have sworn I saw someone upload vdr a while ago (Thierry, Laurent?). I remember because it had all kinds of patches and plugins attached to the specfile, but it's not in the CVS so I must be dreaming.
Anyway, I have a specfile for it, but like you said, it requires initscripts and such which I am not capable of or interested in.
Austin