I was a bit concerned that the patch won't apply to a new version of the package, but if your package compiled fine, then it should be ok. The differences between using -ba and -ta is that -ta looks for the SPEC file inside the tarball while -ba doesn't (check the man page). Regards, Carlos Ruvalcaba _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos