Thanks, Jay! That did it. For the record, here is what is needed to instal SVN-Notify on CentOS 5: yum -y install perl-RPM-Specfile perl-IO-Zlib rpm-build perl-rpm- build-perl perl-Module-Build perl-HTML-Parser wget 'http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DW/DWHEELER/SVN-Notify-2.66.tar.gz' gunzip SVN-Notify-2.66.tar.gz cpanflute2 --name=SVN-Notify --version=2.66 SVN-Notify-2.66.tar rpm -Uvh perl-SVN-Notify-2.66-8.src.rpm vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/perl-SVN-Notify.spec # remove options after 'make pure_install' rpmbuild -bb --target=noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/perl-SVN- Notify.spec rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/perl-SVN- Notify-2.66-8.noarch.rpm best, Jeff