A properly formatted mtree file may stick a leading "./" in front of file names in the root directory. Strip this if present. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- Sending for completeness. The full mtree patchset can be seen at https://patchwork.archlinux.org/user/bundle/8/?state=* The whole patchset requires libarchives mtree generation to be fixed using this patch: https://github.com/allanbrokeit/libarchive/commit/32675a90 src/pacman/check.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/pacman/check.c b/src/pacman/check.c index d325a99..2ccf51d 100644 --- a/src/pacman/check.c +++ b/src/pacman/check.c @@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ int check_pkg_full(alpm_pkg_t *pkg) mode_t type; size_t file_errors = 0; + /* strip leading "./" from path entries */ + if(path[0] == '.' && path[1] == '/') { + path += 2; + } + if(strcmp(path, ".INSTALL") == 0) { char filename[PATH_MAX]; snprintf(filename, PATH_MAX, "%slocal/%s-%s/install", -- 1.7.12