comments for the package lists helps. also, updating bundled apacman version

extra/pre-build.d/etc/apacman.conf

@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
 #buildonly=1
 #cachevcs=1
 #ignorearch=1
-#keepkeys=1
+keepkeys=1
 needed=1
 #noaur=1
 noconfirm=1
+nodatabase=1
 noedit=1
 nofail=1
 #preview=1
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ skipcache=1
 #pacmanconf="/etc/pacman.conf"
 #downdir="/var/cache/pacman/pkg"
 #savedir="/var/cache/apacman/pkg"
+#database="/var/lib/apacman"
+#pacmandb="/var/lib/pacman/sync/aur.db"
+#pkgfiledb="/var/cache/pkgfile/aur.files"
+#localrepo="aur"
 #editor="nano -w"
 #pager="less -R"
 #RPCURL="https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type"
@@ -55,4 +60,3 @@ skipcache=1
 #COLOR5='\e[1;34m'
 #COLOR6='\e[1;33m'
 #COLOR7='\e[1;31m'
-

extra/pre-build.d/i686/root/iso.pkgs.arch

@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-# This can be used for 32-bit only packages
+# Commented lines are supported (via a preceding # only).
+# Packages from the AUR can be specified.
+# If you require a package with a regex special character in the name
+# (i.e.: .\?+[]{} etc.)
+# and it is part of the ACTUAL package name, then you must DOUBLE-ESCAPE it:
+# e.g. 'bonnie\\+\\+' for a package named 'bonnie++'

extra/pre-build.d/i686/root/packages.arch

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Commented lines are supported (via a preceding # only).
+# Packages from the AUR can be specified.
+# If you require a package with a regex special character in the name
+# (i.e.: .\?+[]{} etc.)
+# and it is part of the ACTUAL package name, then you must DOUBLE-ESCAPE it:
+# e.g. 'bonnie\\+\\+' for a package named 'bonnie++'

extra/pre-build.d/root/iso.pkgs.both

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Commented lines are supported (via a preceding # only).
+# Packages from the AUR can be specified.
+# If you require a package with a regex special character in the name
+# (i.e.: .\?+[]{} etc.)
+# and it is part of the ACTUAL package name, then you must DOUBLE-ESCAPE it:
+# e.g. 'bonnie\\+\\+' for a package named 'bonnie++'
 arch-install-scripts
 archiso
 bzip2

extra/pre-build.d/root/packages.both

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-# You can include comments, such as this. AUR packages are allowed.
+# Commented lines are supported (via a preceding # only).
+# Packages from the AUR can be specified.
+# If you require a package with a regex special character in the name
+# (i.e.: .\?+[]{} etc.)
+# and it is part of the ACTUAL package name, then you must DOUBLE-ESCAPE it:
+# e.g. 'bonnie\\+\\+' for a package named 'bonnie++'
 # We need to install all X drivers.
 abs
 acpi
@@ -19,7 +24,7 @@ bin86
 bind-tools
 binutils
 bluez-utils
-bonnie++
+bonnie\\+\\+
 boxbackup-client
 boxbackup-server
 bozocrack-git

extra/pre-build.d/root/pre-build.sh

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ pacman -S --noconfirm --needed base syslinux wget rsync unzip jshon sed sudo abs
 # And get rid of files it wants to replace
 cleanPacorigs
 # Force update all currently installed packages in case the tarball's out of date
-pacman -Syyu --force --noconfirm
+pacman -Su --force --noconfirm
 # And in case the keys updated...
 pacman-key --refresh-keys
 cleanPacorigs
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ pacman --noconfirm -U /root/apacman*.tar.xz &&\
 	 mkdir /var/tmp/apacman && chmod 0750 /var/tmp/apacman &&\
 	 chown root:aurbuild /var/tmp/apacman
 cleanPacorigs
+apacman -Syy
 apacman -S --noconfirm --noedit --skipinteg --needed -S apacman apacman-deps apacman-utils expac
 apacman --gendb
 cleanPacorigs
@@ -95,8 +96,7 @@ ln -s /usr/lib/libdialog.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libdialog.so
 cleanPacorigs
 apacman --noconfirm --noedit --skipinteg -S --needed linux
 apacman --gendb
-cp -a /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux-${DISTNAME}
-cp -af /boot/initramfs-linux.img /boot/initramfs-linux-${DISTNAME}.img
+mv /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux-${DISTNAME}
 cleanPacorigs
 
 # And install EXTRA functionality packages, if there are any.
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ else
 	usermod -L root
 fi
 cleanPacorigs
-cp -af /boot/initramfs-linux.img /boot/initramfs-linux-${DISTNAME}.img
+mv /boot/initramfs-linux.img /boot/initramfs-linux-${DISTNAME}.img
 # And install arch-specific extra packages, if there are any.
 PKGLIST=$(sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/d ; /^[[:space:]]*$/d' /root/packages.arch | tr '\n' ' ')
 if [[ -n "${PKGLIST}" ]];
@@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ then
 	cleanPacorigs
 fi
 # Cleanup
-yes | pacman -Scc
+#yes | pacman -Scc # doesn't parse yes(1) output correctly, it seems.
+# TODO: look into https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Removing_unused_packages_.28orphans.29
+paccache -rk0
 rm -f /root/.bash_history
 rm -f /root/.viminfo
 rm -f /root/apacman-*.pkg.tar.xz
 rm -f /root/pre-build.sh
+pkill -9 dirmngr

extra/pre-build.d/x86_64/root/iso.pkgs.arch

@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-# This can be used for 64-bit only packages
+# Commented lines are supported (via a preceding # only).
+# Packages from the AUR can be specified.
+# If you require a package with a regex special character in the name
+# (i.e.: .\?+[]{} etc.)
+# and it is part of the ACTUAL package name, then you must DOUBLE-ESCAPE it:
+# e.g. 'bonnie\\+\\+' for a package named 'bonnie++'

extra/pre-build.d/x86_64/root/packages.arch

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Commented lines are supported (via a preceding # only).
+# Packages from the AUR can be specified.
+# If you require a package with a regex special character in the name
+# (i.e.: .\?+[]{} etc.)
+# and it is part of the ACTUAL package name, then you must DOUBLE-ESCAPE it:
+# e.g. 'bonnie\\+\\+' for a package named 'bonnie++'