zpacman (for example) is included in the archive that comes with the PKGBUILD. It's a shell script, so there's nothing to build or retrieve, therefore it just installs it where it should. However, you're right, that's not the way a PKGBUILD is supposed to work: it should retrieve the zpacman shell script from its source, not provide a mysterious copy. Cheers, Tofe On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xsmail.com>wrote:

Hello, can someone explain to me how this guys scripts [1] are supposed to produce working packages? Unless i am missing something, i'd have to use black magic in order to obtain the source which isnt even available in the sourceforge SVN of the projects. Since they already have 5 votes they must be awesome though.

[1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=smarch&SeB=m