Tim: >> I'm not familiar with build packages, but are you doing that more than >> once? (Rerunning the script.) It looks a bit circular. Michael Schwendt: > The %install section is executed only once (unless rpmbuild is run in > --short-circuit mode which most newbie packagers don't use). However, > a symlink pointing to itself could be a problem. I was thinking of this sort of thing: The author runs the script, gets a crash, fiddles with something, then tries to run it again. I don't know if that means they'd start from a clean slate, or if previously created files would still be there. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.