> In the same vein, is there a publicly available build system for > centos where people can submit the source tar.gz and get hotly baked > rpm and the icing would be with some way to resolve dependencies?? I don't of a website, but you can use checkinstall which will do the job on one of your own machines. Be aware that the lastest versions have a bug which makes you jump through a couple extra hoops... but it is the only tool to do that, to my knowledge. -geoff --------------------------------- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/