On my VCS branch, makepkg now supports git, svn and hg. That accounts for ~91.5% of all VCS PKGBUILDs in the AUR. Here are rough AUR package counts for those that are interested: git: 4002 svn: 1771 hg: 498 bzr: 364 cvs: 186 darcs: 29 I will write the code to add bzr, cvs and darcs support back, but I need help given I know nothing about these systems. What I will need: 1) How to checkout a repo to a given folder 2) What url "fragments" need supported (e.g. git can build from a branch, tag or commit; svn can build from a given revision). 3) How to create a working copy of the checked out repo (i.e. "copy" the primary checkout folder) and how to get it to the specified branch/tag/commit/whatever. That can be in all one step. makepkg will not support these protocols with pacman-4.1 if I don't get that information (or someone else does not provide a patch). Allan