This is a PKGBUILD I cooked today while playing with pacman and git. What it builds: * pacman.static-git * makepkg-git which uses pacman.static-git * nothing more This is enought for pacman-git testing while keeping the official release version. Note that it builds everything that full version does - this is done for build testing. You need to replace cp -R with your own instruction(s) for getting git source code. In my case it builds my own working branch. # Contributor: Roman Kyrylych <roman@archlinux.org> pkgname=pacman-git pkgver=`date +%Y%m%d` pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="git version of pacman.static and makepkg" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/" license=('GPL') makedepends=(doxygen libarchive libdownload) depends=(fakeroot) options=(!libtool) build() { mkdir -p $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver cp -R /home/roman/scm-repos/git/pacman/* . ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make || return 1 install -D src/pacman/pacman.static $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/pacman.static-git install -D scripts/makepkg $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/makepkg-git sed -i "s/pacman /pacman.static-git /g" $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/makepkg-git } -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)