Eelko Berkenpies wrote: > rpmbuild -tb kmess-<version>.tar.gz That uses the upstream specfile. While I haven't checked this particular one, those tend to be absolute crap in general. They are often autogenerated, often use some bizarre hacks to autogenerate file lists and generally try to support every RPM-based distro under the sun (which tends not to work reliably). The fact that they try using autopackage tools during an RPM build also makes me shout "WTF???!!!". Kevin Kofler