Whenever config.status / configure runs it touches appliance/make.sh (even if the file hasn't changed) and that causes the appliance to be rebuilt completely. This patch breaks that dependency because building the appliance is time-consuming (since dracut was added) so we should try not to build it each time. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html