Is it my impression or there are some problems with $SRCDEST and $PKGDEST? I didn't define any of these variables in both my makepkg.conf, the guest one and the chroot one. In makechrootpkg, lines 155-157, I see: --------- source $uniondir/etc/makepkg.conf [ -d "$uniondir/pkgdest" ] || mkdir "$uniondir/pkgdest" if ! grep "PKGDEST=/pkgdest" "$uniondir/etc/makepkg.conf" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Setting PKGDEST in makepkg.conf" echo "PKGDEST=/pkgdest" >> "$uniondir/etc/makepkg.conf" fi [ -d "$uniondir/srcdest" ] || mkdir "$uniondir/srcdest" if ! grep "SRCDEST=/srcdest" "$uniondir/etc/makepkg.conf" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Setting SRCDEST in makepkg.conf" echo "SRCDEST=/srcdest" >> "$uniondir/etc/makepkg.conf" fi --------- So here the chroot's makepkg.conf gets sourced, and it shouldn't inherit any of these variables, but they get forced (in the chroot) to /pkgdest and /srcdest. Problem is, later (lines 240-248) the files don't get moved to $WORKDIR as before, but they go to $PKGDEST, which *should* be empty (because it's the guest system's pkgdest, which got sourced before adding the variables there): --------- if [ -e $pkgfile ]; then if [ -n "$PKGDEST" ]; then echo "Moving completed ${_pkgname} package file to ${PKGDEST}" mv $pkgfile "${PKGDEST}" else echo "Moving completed ${_pkgname} package file to ${WORKDIR}" mv $pkgfile "${WORKDIR}" fi fi --------- I don't understand because they go the /{src,pkg}dest, but it looks like they shouldn't. Even more, there's no directory check on the guest system, so guess what... if the dirs don't exist, the source and dest files get renamed to /srcdest and /pkgdest respectively... This looks like a bug to me, but given how many times I am wrong (especially at 2 a.m.) I'd prefer to wait for some feedback before opening one. Corrado