So... for all of you that have had to manually generate the macros for your RHEL5 systems, times have changed :) Introducing an official rhel buildsys-macros package now available in you RHEL 5 base channel. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0985.html This package provides the /etc/rpms/macros.dist file with the following contents: # dist macros. %rhel 5 %dist .el5 %el5 1 On RHEL6 this file and its macros are provided by the redhat-release package. -greg _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list