matthias saou wrote well i don t really find it consistent at all to use an rpm package built against something that wasn t installed through rpm oh well fair enough what i d recommend in your case ugh way too much manual labor what i ve done instead is to create a tiny little kernel spec that installs no files but claims to produce a kernel package having version number uname r for architecture uname p it also claims to provide kernel sources at the same version that is enough to make alsa driver spec happy and at least forms a reasonable representation of what my homemade kernel provides to the system i should have thought of this approach sooner _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 