Ok Dan, well all done, adding "-O1 " to bdist_rpm.py did the job fine. Have posted the src.rpm and rpm at http://vk4tux.no-ip.org/d-rats-0.3.2b1-1.noarch.rpm http://vk4tux.no-ip.org/d-rats-0.3.2b1-1.src.rpm If anyone would like to try them out. regards Adrian