Hi, Attached a patch to do a more complete variable substitution (not just pkgver and pkgname). Also, since it seems that some of official packages like to use "eval" for multiple-replacement, let's handle that in the same time. Checked functionality with these packages: core/kernel26 (arbitrary simple substitution), extra/firefox-i18n (eval). This patch should also close bugs FS#2649 and FS#12645. There are some quirky bash variable substitution types that this cannot handle but those usually fall into the "not well formed package" category. E.g. when there's a simple variable with quotes but with extra spaces inside the quotes, like _myvar=("something "). Then if there's, say, a substitution source=(from/$_myvar/code.tar.gz), bash will give: "from/something". If there's no extra space, it will give "from/something/code.tar.gz" For properly doing this on AUR, the way quotation marks are removed has to be changed. But probably we don't need to do that, until some uses this bash "feature" in an official package (since I recently learned, that the definition of the PKGBUILD format is just one line: "whatever makepkg can handle".) Cheers, Greg