> Anyways what is happening is this, when I do not have coreutils > installed makepkg uses syntax for ls which OS X's ls doesn't understand, pkgtools does not need coreutils: busybox and tar-1.13 should be enough to get everything working. How about installing busybox at some place like /opt/busybox and changing the PATH to /opt/busybox:$PATH just before starting any pkgtools stuff?