diff --git a/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.conf b/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.conf
index f65efe777..e0ce9d1ec 100644
--- a/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.conf
+++ b/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.conf
@@ -14,52 +14,79 @@
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 # include the function to patch and configure the kernel
-. $base/package/base/linux26/lx_config.sh
+. $base/package/*/*/linux-conf.in
 
 main_lx_src() {
-	cd $root/usr/src
+	local vanilla_ver=$( echo $ver | cut -d. -f1-3 )
+	local patches_dir=
 
 	echo "Extracting the Linux Kernel Sources [$vanilla_ver] ... "
-	lx_tempdir=`mktemp -d tmp.XXXXXXXXXX`
 
 	# hack to extract the files into our usr/src dir ...
 	# this part is continued inside lx_injectextraversion
-	ln -sf $PWD/${lx_tempdir} $builddir/linux-${vanilla_ver}
-	tar -k $taropt $archdir/$srctar -C $builddir/
-	chown -R 0:0 ${lx_tempdir} ; chmod go=u,go-w ${lx_tempdir}
+	tar $taropt $( match_source_file -p linux linux$treever | head -n 1 )
 
-	echo "Copying kernel patches ... "
-	rm -rf linux$treever-patches ; mkdir -p linux$treever-patches
-	cp -v $base/package/$repository/linux$treever/README linux$treever-patches/
-	cp -v $patchfiles linux$treever-patches/
-
-	cd ${lx_tempdir}
+	chown -R 0:0 linux-$vanilla_ver; chmod go=u,go-w linux-$vanilla_ver
+	cd linux-$vanilla_ver
 
+	lx_patch
 	lx_config
+
+	patches_dir="$root/usr/src/linux-$lx_kernelrelease-patches"
+
 	# remove debug configs 
 	rm -f .config.[1-9] 
 
-	if [ "$ROCKCFG_PKG_LINUX_CONFIG_STYLE" = none ] ; then
+	if [ "$SDECFG_PKG_LINUX_CONFIG_STYLE" = none ] ; then
 		# create a valid .config (new settings may be available etc.)
 		yes '' | eval $MAKE oldconfig > /dev/null
-	else
-		cp -v .config_nomods  ../linux$treever-patches/config_nomods.txt
-		cp -v .config_modules ../linux$treever-patches/config_modules.txt
 	fi
 
-	# can fail in stage 0-1 ...
-	if [ $stagelevel -gt 1 ] && [[ $treever = 24* ]] ; then
-		echo "Creating dependencies (e.g. for versioned symbols) ..."
-		eval $MAKE dep-files
+	if grep -q "CONFIG_MODULES=y" .config ; then
+		eval $MAKE $makeopt modules_prepare
 	fi
 
 	echo "Clean up the *.orig and *~ files ... "
 	find -name '*.orig' -o -name '*~' | xargs rm -f
 	rm -f .config.old
+
+	echo "Copying kernel patches ... "
+	rm -rf "$patches_dir"; mkdir -p "$patches_dir"
+
+	cat <<-EOT > $patches_dir/README
+	This directory contains all the applied patches, used
+	to build the kernel (in addition to the official kernel sources).
+	EOT
+
+	for x in $patchfiles ; do
+		# if the patch does not exist it was downloaded or so
+		# and we just do not copy it ...
+		[ ! -f "$x" ] || cp -v "$x" "$patches_dir"
+	done
+
+	if [ "$SDECFG_PKG_LINUX_CONFIG_STYLE" != none ] ; then
+		cp -v .config_nomods	"$patches_dir/config_nomods.txt"
+		cp -v .config_modules	"$patches_dir/config_modules.txt"
+	fi
+	cp -v .config "$patches_dir/config.txt"
+
+	echo "Installing kernel sources [$lx_kernelrelease] "
+	rm -rf $root/usr/src/{linux-$lx_kernelrelease,linux}
+	mkdir -vp "$root/usr/src/linux-$lx_kernelrelease"
+	ln -svnf "linux-$lx_kernelrelease" $root/usr/src/linux
+
+	tar -cf - * | tar -C "$root/usr/src/linux-$lx_kernelrelease" -xf -
+	cp -v .config "$root/usr/src/linux-$lx_kernelrelease/"
 }
 
-autoextract=0 ; createdocs=0
+createdocs=0
+srctar=none
 
 custmain="main_lx_src"
-patchfiles="`echo $base/package/$repository/linux$treever/*.patch` $patchfiles"
 
+for x in $( match_source_file -p patch-.* linux$treever | grep -v '\.tar\.' ); do 
+	var_insert patchfiles " " "$x"
+done
+for x in $( ls -1d $base/package/$repository/linux$treever/*.patch ); do
+	var_append patchfiles " " "$x"
+done
diff --git a/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.desc b/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.desc
index deab35daa..b15592cdf 100644
--- a/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.desc
+++ b/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.desc
@@ -1,25 +1,18 @@
 
-[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-[COPY] 
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-[COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-[COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-[COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
 [COPY] 
-[COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/linux26-src/linux26-src.desc
-[COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+[COPY] Filename: package/.../linux26-src/linux26-src.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 [COPY] 
 [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-[COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
-[COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
-[COPY] 
-[COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
-[COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
-[COPY] file for details.
-[COPY] 
-[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 [I] The Linux 2.6 kernel sources
 
@@ -39,6 +32,6 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable 
-[V] 2.6.7
+[V] 2.6.21.1
 [P] X -1-------9 100.900