 made other than that i bet you could do non root the following can be scripted easily NUMBER unpack them somewhere NUMBER for each of them go to the top directory of the unpacked tarball and do configure then look in i m going by memory topdir utils you should see a spec file there do this for the NUMBER tarballs and you get NUMBER spec files the above steps can all be performed automatically if the spec files are updated to include the necessary macros in the prep setup q and build stages this would make the building of the rpm files less error prone and more self contained and it would be somewhat self documenting _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 