I can't comment on %patches because I've never had much luck with it either, but if you really want to have fun, try %autosetup and using lua to replace the patch list. http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Autosetup This is supported for all Fedora, and supposedly EL7. - J< -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging