This is just FYI... If, for whatever reason, I have VERSION_CONTROL=numbered in my environment, the rpmbuild fails (in not such an obvious way): I get: ... Patch #22266 (linux-2.6-s390-z-vm-monitor-stream-state-2.patch): + patch -p1 -s + echo 'Patch #22267 (linux-2.6-char-tpm-cleanups-and-fixes.patch):' Patch #22267 (linux-2.6-char-tpm-cleanups-and-fixes.patch): + patch -p1 -s 2 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig.rej 4 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c.rej 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h.rej error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62999 (%prep) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62999 (%prep) if I unset VERSION_CONTROL, rpmbuild works. I did a google: rpmbuild version_control got 301 hits but nothing obviously (to me) suggesting this is a known "bug". Again, just FYI. --Ron