- how to clean up sysroot nicely without having to rebuild the cross-compiler? for now only removing and stowing a copy somewhere before building stage1 helps. - pacman with a '--no-execute-hooks' option - makepkg with an 'alternate root' option (which doens't collide with pacman's options), avoids patching -r and --config into makepkg for stage1 - shims and provides and depends don't work yet: - binutils and glibc-shim - same for gcc-libs: glibc and gcc-libs for gcc - bsdtar: /home/cross/i486-root/packages/i486/linux-docs-4.15.1-2-i486.pkg.tar.xz: Not found in archive bsdtar: /home/cross/i486-root/packages/i486/linux-headers-4.15.1-2-i486.pkg.tar.xz: Not found in archive bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. Built package linux. - gcc PKGBUILD instead of diff - removing all pacman databases and recreating them with repo-add, also removing all installed pacman packages seem a little bit paranoic. Find out how to speed this up and do it properly.