More strange things: goliat:/home/updates # rpm -qa |grep xf86-3.3.6 xf86-3.3.6-27 goliat:/home/updates # rpm -F -vvv /home/updates/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/xf86-3.3.6-65.src.rpm D: counting packages to install D: found 1 packages D: looking for packages to download D: retrieved 0 packages D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 68 D: Signature pad : 4 D: sigsize : 72 D: Header + Archive: 49377208 D: expected size : 49377208 D: found 1 source and 0 binary packages D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 68 D: Signature pad : 4 D: sigsize : 72 D: Header + Archive: 49377208 D: expected size : 49377208 D: installing a source package D: sources in: /usr/src/packages/SOURCES D: spec file in: /usr/src/packages/SPECS D: file: Trio3D-IBM300GL-3.3.6-diff action: unknown D: file: Trio3D2X-fix1-3.3.6.diff action: unknown D: file: Trio64V2GX-IBMNetfinity-3.3.6-diff action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3-ppc_bh.patch action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.3-ppc_Xpmac_mga.diff.bz2 action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.3-ppc_config.patch action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.6-ia64.diff action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.6-macintosh_keysyms.dif action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.6-sparc.diff action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.6.dif action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.6.dif.bak action: unknown D: file: XFree86-3.3.6.tar.gz action: unknown D: file: Xmodmap.i386 action: unknown D: file: Xmodmap.ppc action: unknown D: file: i128.dif action: unknown D: file: i810.dif action: unknown D: file: i810gart.dif action: unknown D: file: latin2-fonts.tar.gz action: unknown D: file: latin7-fonts.tar.gz action: unknown D: file: powermac-2000-01-15.src.tar.gz action: unknown D: file: r128-xaa.dif action: unknown D: file: xdm.pamd action: unknown D: file: xf86.spec action: unknown D: file: xfntgr-0.9-1.noarch.rpm action: unknown xf86-3.3.6-65 GZDIO: 6208 reads, 50847908 total bytes in 9.238 secs goliat:/home/updates # rpm -qa |grep xf86-3.3.6 xf86-3.3.6-27 ========= i.e. After upgrading package, rpm program says that the package version keeps on being the former one (old *-27 instead of new *-65). No errors shown. :-?? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ** RoMaN SoFt / LLFB ** roman@madrid.com http://pagina.de/romansoft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~