While rebuilding some packages, namcap issued some warnings: beryl-core W: File (usr/man/man1/) does not have the world readable bit set. beryl-core W: File (usr/man/man3/) does not have the world readable bit set. When I look at the $startdir/pkg, everything is fine though. I narrowed it down to the following simple test case: [01:54:30][thomas@gollum shm]$ fakeroot bash-3.2# ls -lF insgesamt 0 bash-3.2# mkdir foo bash-3.2# ls -lF insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2. Apr 01:54 foo/ bash-3.2# chmod 700 foo/ bash-3.2# ls -lF insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2. Apr 01:54 foo/ bash-3.2# exit [01:55:02][thomas@gollum shm]$ ls -lF insgesamt 0 drwx------ 2 thomas users 40 2. Apr 01:54 foo/ [01:55:03][thomas@gollum shm]$ As you can see, the chmod has no effect inside the fakeroot environment, which causes a 'cp -a' in makepkg to behave incorrectly and may cause other similar bugs during makepkg. Downgrading coreutils from 6.9-1 to 6.7-1 solves this problem. I have no idea where to start, but this should be adressed quickly as it may break many packages. For everyone who is going to test, I found the old package here: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686/coreutils-6.7-1.pkg.tar.gz @Romashka: If you read this, I think your exaile build bug is also related to this, please confirm.