on wed oct NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERam NUMBER 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 following that reasoning i ve been installing all my custom built kernels through rpm recently i find it annoying though that alsa kernel and similar packages will only build for the currently running kernel so i ve attached a patch to specify an alternate kernel by setting the target_kernel environment variable before running rpmbuild you still need to have the rpm for the specified kernel installed but at least it doesn t have to be currently running it s kinda hackish so if someone has a better way to do this let me know gary 