diff -r 2d773f6e4815 conary/build/redirectrecipe.py
--- a/conary/build/redirectrecipe.py    Mon Sep 24 10:52:26 2007 -0400
+++ b/conary/build/redirectrecipe.py    Mon Sep 24 21:26:42 2007 -0400
@@ -392,7 +392,8 @@ class RedirectRecipe(Recipe):
         self.repos = repos
         self.cfg = cfg
         self.redirections = _Redirections()
-        self.branch = branch
+        # create binary version
+        self.branch = branch.createVersion(versions.Revision('1-1')).getBinaryVersion().branch()