Michael, do you have also fixes for make bindist, it fails for me and I don't have any more time to fix (at least not today): (cd /tmp/packages-staging; \ tar --exclude 'CVS' --exclude 'RCS' --exclude 'SCCS' --exclude '*~' --exclude '*.orig' --ex clude '*.rej' --exclude '.#*' -cf /tmp/packages-staging/jde-1.19-pkg.tar \ `cat pkginfo/MANIFEST.jde`) tar: etc/jde/java/lib/CVS\:: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Entries: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Repository: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Root: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: etc/jde/java/doc/jde/debugger/expr/CVS\:: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Entries: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Repository: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Root: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: etc/jde/java/doc/jde/debugger/spec/CVS\:: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Entries: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Repository: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Root: Cannot stat: No such file or directory Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj(a)suse.de private aj(a)arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj