>+ /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/nagios-3.4.1.tar.gz >+ tar -xf - >+ STATUS=0 Ok, it unpacked. >+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' >+ cd nagios-3.4.1 >/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36485: line 31: cd: nagios-3.4.1: No such file or directory >error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.36485 (%prep) But now it cant cd into the *expected* directory. Either fix the tar file, or amend the spec with the facilities provided that allow for this very circumstance. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#.25prep_section:_.25setup_command