Hi Magnus,
[The symlinks] have never disappeared on my system, but then I never have found a need for them either.
the reason why we need those symlinks is that the repository is served to the public being called 'haskell', but we build it under the name of 'repo'. Consequently, Pacman expects the repository database to be called 'haskell.db.tar.gz' when our users run it, but inside of the chroot build, Pacman wants that database to be called 'repo.db.tar.gz'. The easiest solution I've found to remedy that problem is to create a symlink as follows: ln -s repo.db.tar.gz haskell.db.tar.gz That solution is by no means ideal, but it works. Of course, an even better solution would be to modify our chroot builds so that they call the repository they're building 'haskell' instead of 'repo', then this entire problem would just cease to exist. If anyone knows how to accomplish that, please share the information! Take care, Peter