I'm attempting to set up a clean chroot to build packages in. I've followed the instructions on the wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroo.... I've read all the posts on the forum, than man pages, and the mailing lists (I may have missed something) and haven't found any answer to my problem; Steps to recreate: 1. sudo mkarchroot ~/chroot/root base base-devel sudo -- success 2. edit pacman.conf, makepkg.conf, and mirrorlist in the chroot directory 3. sudo mkarchroot -u ~/chroot/root -- success 4. a) [myra@gandalf ../repos/core-x86_64]:sudo makechrootpkg -c -r ~/chroot creating clean working copy...done /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 194: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 199: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory sed: can't read /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 204: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory sed: can't read /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 209: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory grep: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 244: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/sudoers.d/nobody-pacman: No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/sudoers.d/nobody-pacman': No such file or directory error: '/home/myra/chroot/myra' does not appear to be a Arch chroot please build the image using mkarchroot Build failed, check /home/myra/chroot/myra/build b) [myra@gandalf ../repos/core-x86_64]:sudo makechrootpkg -r ~/chroot/root Missing chroot dir root directory. Try using: mkarchroot /home/myra/chroot/root/root base base-devel sudo usage makechrootpkg [options] -r <chrootdir> [--] [makepkg args] Run this script in a PKGBUILD dir to build a package inside a clean chroot. All unrecognized arguments passed to this script will be passed to makepkg. The chroot dir consists of the following directories: <chrootdir>/{root, copy} but only "root" is required by default. The working copy will be created as needed The chroot "root" directory must be created via the following command: mkarchroot <chrootdir>/root base base-devel sudo Default makepkg args: -s --noconfirm Flags: -h This help -c Clean the chroot before building -u Update the working copy of the chroot before building This is useful for rebuilds without dirtying the pristine chroot -d Add the package to a local db at /repo after building -r <dir> The chroot dir to use -I <pkg> Install a package into the working copy of the chroot -l <copy> The directory to use as the working copy of the chroot Useful for maintaining multiple copies. Default: myra Using [myra@gandalf ../repos/core-x86_64]:sudo makechrootpkg -r ~/chroot/myra gets the same results as b). I don't think anything is wrong with makechrootpkg. I'm sure it's something simple and I'm probably just brickheaded and can't sort out what I'm doing wrong. If someone has a two by four to hit me with and straighten out my thinking please don't hesitate. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!