I have a chroot devel environment like this /home+build/ / root/ - srch chroot build made with mkarchroot / /trinity.source - a symlink ie ln -s ../trinity.source / copy - made by makechrootpkg / pkgbuild - where the pkgbuild live / trinity.source - a subversion repo checkout of source code I then fetch the subversion rev level to use as the pkgver number like this _source=trinity.source _module=kdepim cd ${_source}/${_module} pkgver=$(svnversion) This gives me an error /build/PKGBUILD: line 25: cd: /trinity.source/kdepim: Too many levels of symbolic links I want to symlink the svn repo to inside the chroot so when makechrootpkg -c -r <chrootdir> creates the clean copy it doesn't have to copy the entire svn source code to the clean copy, as it is almost 2G is size. Anyone know of a way to get around this?