On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote: rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 --define 'buildsmp 0' kernel.src.rpm > What I (and the OP I suppose) was hoping for was a way to override such > flags (buildsmp) along with the rpmbuild --rebuild options (without > editing the *.spec file). I believe the 'define' stuff can be modified as: rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 --define 'buildsmp 0' kernel.src.rpm Satish