Peter Lemenkov wrote : > # ln -s /usr /usr/X11R6 > > and forget about this problem... Not sure how serious you're meaning to be, but it's worth pointing out that this is a typical complete blocker with rpm : Replacing a directory with a symlink is impossible, unless the directory is empty and some %pre scriplet takes care of removing it. Well, you've also got the option of "extreme ugliness", but I'm pretty sure Mike wants to avoid that (and he should! ;-)). Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 Load : 0.61 0.38 0.30 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list