diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 6921c4abb..728a32d1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
  - Alejandro Mery: fixed xfree config.in, fixed typo in Build-Tools and
                    Cleanup to skip svn conflict files
  - updated kopete, sodipodi, neon, subversion and subversion-static
+ - fixed modutils to install the lsmod into $root/bin (as module-init-tools
+   do)
+ - improved svn-static to include the $arch_machine into the binary name
 
 *) 2003-09-09 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
diff --git a/package/base/modutils/modutils.conf b/package/base/modutils/modutils.conf
index 33ab75095..ae4d63c9e 100644
--- a/package/base/modutils/modutils.conf
+++ b/package/base/modutils/modutils.conf
@@ -20,27 +20,29 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-inst_mod_conf() {
-	if false ; then
-		rm -f $root/etc/modules.conf
-		depmod -a -F $root/boot/System.map
-		modprobe -c | grep -v '^Note: ' > $root/etc/modules.conf
-	else
-		cp -vf $confdir/modules.conf.data $root/etc/modules.conf
+modutils_pm() {
+	cp -vf $confdir/modules.conf.data $root/etc/modules.conf
+	mv -fv $root/sbin/lsmod$postfix $root/bin/
+	if [ -h $root/bin/lsmod$postfix ] ; then
+		# correct the symlink destination
+		rm $root/bin/lsmod$postfix
+		ln -sfv ../sbin/modprobe$postfix $root/bin/lsmod$postfix
 	fi
-	add_flist $root/etc/modules.conf
 }
 
-postmake="inst_mod_conf"
+postmake="modutils_pm"
 confopt="$confopt --sbindir=\$root/sbin --enable-insmod-static"
 var_remove GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND " " "-s"
 
+postfix=""
+
 if [ -f $root/var/adm/flists/module-init-tools ] ; then
 	var_append patchfiles " " $confdir/use_old_postfix.diff
 	# we need to break the flist-del variable name so Check-PkgFormat
 	# doesn't think that we would add something to the variable ...
 	var_remove flist''del '|' ".*\\.old"
 	postinstall="ln -sfv genksyms.old $root/sbin/genksyms"
+	postfix=".old"
 fi
 
 export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$root/usr/src/linux/include"
diff --git a/package/rene/subversion-static/subversion-static.conf b/package/rene/subversion-static/subversion-static.conf
index 3fcdb501f..40719c268 100644
--- a/package/rene/subversion-static/subversion-static.conf
+++ b/package/rene/subversion-static/subversion-static.conf
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ svn_static_pm()
 		cp -v subversion/$prg \
 			$root/$prefix/bin/$xprg-$arch_machine-static-$ver
 		ln -sfv $xprg-$arch-static-$ver \
-			$root/$prefix/bin/$xprg-$arch_machine-static
+			$root/$prefix/bin/$xprg-$arch-static
 	done
 }