$ makepkg ==> Entering fakeroot environment ==> Making package: medit 0.8.2-1 (Sat Feb 3 18:03:18 MST 2007) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading medit-0.8.2.tar.bz2 --18:03:19-- http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mooedit/medit-0.8.2.tar.bz2 => `medit-0.8.2.tar.bz2' Resolving dl.sourceforge.net... 193.1.193.66 Connecting to dl.sourceforge.net|193.1.193.66|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,501,983 (1.4M) [application/x-bzip2] 100%[==============================================================================================================================>] 1,501,983 66.75K/s ETA 00:00 18:03:42 (64.31 KB/s) - `medit-0.8.2.tar.bz2' saved [1501983/1501983] cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cache/pacman/src/medit-0.8.2.tar.bz2': Permission denied ==> WARNING: You do not have correct permissions to cache source in /var/cache/pacman/src ==> WARNING: Integrity checks (md5) are missing or incomplete. ==> Extracting Sources... -> bunzip2 -f medit-0.8.2.tar.bz2 ==> Starting build()... PKGBUILD: line 14: cd: /home/stonecrest/.abs/community/office/medit/src/medit-0.8.2: No such file or directory [stonecrest@machine medit]$ cd src/ [stonecrest@machine src]$ ls medit-0.8.2.tar As you can see, makepkg didn't properly untar the file. The tarball correctly shows as application/x-tar and i can untar it manually without a problem. This is with pacman-rc-3.0.0-8. Scott