I want to have a go at recompiling balsa-1.2.4-31.src.rpm (suse 8.1), which is broken. However, I'm confused about how to reconstruct the original source tree, as used by suse to create the binary. The source rpm contains several files: balsa-1.2.4.tar.bz2 balsa-1.2.4-ac.patch balsa-1.2.4-gobcheck.patch balsa-1.2.4-ia64.patch These are installed to "/usr/src/packages/SOURCES". There is also a "balsa.spec", installed in "/usr/src/packages/SPECS". What is the general procedure? I guess I should expand first "balsa-1.2.4.tar.bz2" somewhere (anywhere, I guess), and then apply the three patches, in any order. Am I correct? Is there a method to automate that? Maybe I'll try the sources from balsa.gnome.org... if there was a bug, they'll have it corrected (they have version 1.4.2, and 2.0.6 for gnome_2). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson