Sorry, I didn#t get around to answer this mail earlier. On 01.04.2009 10:22, Denis Leroy wrote: > Do yo know what is up with the rebuilds of open-vm-tools ? It seems > currently broken somehow. I've checked in the latest version of the > package, but the akmod package available for rawhide is still very old. > How do I force a akmod package rebuild ? I only have modules for > 'open-vm-tools' and 'open-vm-tools-kmod' in CVS... $ head open-vm-tools-kmod.spec # buildforkernels macro hint: when you build a new version or a new release # that contains bugfixes or other improvements then you must disable the # "buildforkernels newest" macro for just that build; immediately after # queuing that build enable the macro again for subsequent builds; that way # a new akmod package will only get build when a new one is actually # needed %define buildforkernels newest IOW: do s/%define buildforkernels newest/#define buildforkernels newest and the akmods package will get build as well as new kmods. Maybe the wording needs to be improved?