Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote : > %disttaglong %{expand:%%(rpm -qi `rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release` |grep > Version | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 2 | perl -pe 's/^\s+//')} Hmm, haven't had enough coffee yet, but is the above just to get the version of the package that contains the redhat-release file!? If so, what about this instead : %(rpm -qf --qf '%{version}' /etc/redhat-release) I _must_ be missing something... Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3.radeon Load : 0.23 0.57 0.70