I use pacman-git from 1 or 2 weeks (local build from PKGBUILD) , its fast and stable,good job.Thank you. Name : pacman-git Version : 20071121-1 ... Architecture : x86_64 ... [~]:: pacman -Q|wc -l 1251 :) no problems for pacman [~]:: pacman -Ss|wc -l 9521 this its a feature or a bug? i have made a build for bsc-beta,i have a line: make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/opt/bsc install || return 1 variable its wrong,makepkg make empty pkg and skip "return 1" make: Nothing to be done for `install'. ==> Tidying install... -> Removing info/doc files... -> Compressing man pages... -> Stripping debugging symbols from binarie ==> Creating package... -> Generating .FILELIST file... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: bsc-beta (Thu Nov 22 19: in the stable version this thing is working correct and return an error ==> Removing info/doc files... ==> Compressing man pages... ==> Stripping debugging symbols from libraries... ==> Stripping symbols from binaries... ==> Generating .FILELIST file... tar: *: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ==> Generating .PKGINFO file... ==> Compressing package... tar: *: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ==> ERROR: Failed to create package file. also makepkg doesn't work with directory with spaces for example try to build pacman-git in "~/new\ folder/pacman-git"