Can everyone check they have merges their /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew file correctly. Especially the zipman option which was introduced in pacman 3.2 On my system, the following packages have uncompress man pages: ca-certificates cpufrequtils file hal mlocate openssl p7zip pcmciautils run-parts shadow texlive-bin udev which indicates the following people are missing zipman (or were at some stage...): Packager : François Charette Packager : Giovanni Scafora Packager : Hugo Doria Packager : James Rayner Packager : Pierre Schmitz Packager : Tobias Powalowski Packager : Unknown Packager <- and someone needs to fill in the Packager field. Allan