To make the conserver-xcat rpm, run: ./bldconserver.pl The original patches like initscript.patch and initscript1.patch have been replaced with initscript_8.2.1.patch, please follow the steps below to create patch for init script. 1. Copy conserver-8.2.1.tar.gz to a directory, say /root/conserverstart mkdir /root/conservertar cp conserver-8.2.1.tar.gz /root/conserverstart 2. Copy the initscript_8.2.1.patch to the same directory cp initscript_8.2.1.patch /root/conserverstart 3. Uncompress the conserver-8.2.1.tar.gz into two copies: tar zxvf conserver-8.2.1.tar.gz mv conserver-8.2.1 conserver-8.2.1-diffinit tar zxvf conserver-8.2.1.tar.gz 4. Patch the conserver.init with the original patch copied from Git repository cd /root/conservertar cat initscript_8.2.1.patch | /usr/bin/patch -s -p1 --fuzz=0 select conserver-8.2.1-diffinit/contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.init as the file to patch 5. Update the conserver-8.2.1-diffinit/contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.init with whatever changes that are needed 6. Generate the new patch: cd /root/conserverstart diff -ruN conserver-8.2.1/contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.init conserver-8.2.1-diffinit/contrib/redhat-rpm/conserver.init > initscript_8.2.1.patch 7. Copy the new patch to the xcat-dep Git repository and checkin cp initscript_8.2.1.patch ~/xcat/xcat-dep/conserver/ cd ~/xcat/xcat-dep/conserver/ git commit -m "blah blah blah"