diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6fdb5d52..c2da46e4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
               - various translation fixes and updates (FS#34395, FS#34704,
                 FS#34716, FS#35097)
               - makepkg:
-                - imporve SVN VCS PKGBUILD handling (FS#34675, FS#34636)
+                - improve SVN VCS PKGBUILD handling (FS#34675, FS#34636)
                 - allow "lp:" URLs for BZR sources (FS#34650)
                 - prevent pkgver() capturing stderr (FS#34974)
                 - fix attempt to remove package twice on failure (FS#34672)
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
                 (FS#28014)
               - configure shell for running install scriptlets (FS#20557)
               - make path to ldconfig configurable
-              - display repo in VerbosePkgLists output (FS#26334)
-              - do not check file conflicts or diskspace with --dbonly
+              - display repo in VerbosePkgLists output
+              - do not check file conflicts or disk space with --dbonly
                 (FS#25667)
               - UseDelta takes a ratio for the largest delta to use
               - track how installed packages were validated (FS#28040)
@@ -94,14 +94,14 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
               - use full delta size as max download size (FS#28345)
               - improved handling and fix crash after failed downloads
               - fix key lookup when using gpg 2.X as GPG program
-              - match only full path components in diskspace checking
-              - skip diskspace checks when using --dbonly
+              - match only full path components in disk space checking
+              - skip disk space checks when using --dbonly
               - scripts: unset CDPATH bash variable in all scripts
               - makepkg:
                 - fix syntax error in remove_deps (FS#28448)
                 - small fixes related to multiple libdeps, parsing issues
                 - exit via default handler in trap_exit (FS#28491)
-                - attempt to work around BTRFS file/block size reporting issues
+                - attempt to work around Btrfs file/block size reporting issues
               - pacman-key:
                 - remove signature verification in --populate
                 - make -e option work as advertised without arguments
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
               - split package verification and load stages
               - sync database reading refactor for performance
               - use a larger buffer for package checksum validation
-              - filelists now have a dedicated type with metadata
-              - diskspace check no longer requires iterating package archives
+              - file lists now have a dedicated type with metadata
+              - disk space check no longer requires iterating package archives
               - update and add checksum routines from PolarSSL
               - validate sync database sha256sum if available
               - correctly parse sizes in database > 2GiB
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
               - fix default path substitution in documentation
               - makepkg: quote variables that may contain spaces (FS#24002)
               - makepkg: fix creation of source package with -p (FS#24567)
-              - repo-add: include dotfiles in filelists (FS#24534)
+              - repo-add: include dotfiles in file lists (FS#24534)
               - minor translation updates: de, fi, fr, sk, zh_CN
 3.5.2         - ensure we show correct missing dependency info (FS#23424)
               - pacman usage/--help updates (FS#23433, FS#23369)
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
               - translations:
                 - zh_CN: fix positional parameter usage in makepkg (FS#16983)
                 - el: fix Y/N response translation (FS#16568)
-3.3.2         - fix infinite filesize download issue (FS#16359)
+3.3.2         - fix infinite file size download issue (FS#16359)
               - fix bogus download size on TotalDownload
               - documentation updates
               - small translation updates
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ VERSION         DESCRIPTION
                 - conflicts checking speedups and fixes
                 - move lockfile location to inside the DB
                 - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages
-                - remove faulty diskspace checking
+                - remove faulty disk space checking
                 - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong
                 - rewrite of file extraction code (FS#7484)
               - makepkg-specific changes:
diff --git a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
index 9244d85a..b41dfa03 100644
--- a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ fi
 trap 'rm -f $CHECKUPDATE_DB/db.lck' INT TERM EXIT
 
 DBPath="${DBPath:-@localstatedir@/lib/pacman/}"
-eval $(awk -F' *= *' '$1 ~ /DBPath/ { print $1 "=" $2 }' /etc/pacman.conf)
+eval $(awk -F' *= *' '$1 ~ /DBPath/ { print $1 "=" $2 }' @sysconfdir@/pacman.conf)
 
 mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATE_DB"
 ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
diff --git a/contrib/paccache.sh.in b/contrib/paccache.sh.in
index 64c3c536..a9c6524f 100644
--- a/contrib/paccache.sh.in
+++ b/contrib/paccache.sh.in
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ runcmd() {
 		if sudo -v &>/dev/null && sudo -l &>/dev/null; then
 			sudo "$@"
 		else
-			printf '%s ' 'root'
-			su -c "$(printf '%q ' "$@")"
+			die 'Unable to escalate privileges using sudo'
 		fi
 	else
 		"$@"
@@ -308,9 +307,9 @@ totalsaved=$(@SIZECMD@ "${candidates[@]}" | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }
 # crush. kill. destroy.
 (( verbose )) && cmdopts+=(-v)
 if (( delete )); then
-	runcmd xargs -0a <(printf '%s\0' "${candidates[@]}") rm "${cmdopts[@]}"
+	printf '%s\0' "${candidates[@]}" | runcmd xargs -0 rm "${cmdopts[@]}"
 elif (( move )); then
-	runcmd xargs -0a <(printf '%s\0' "${candidates[@]}") mv "${cmdopts[@]}" -t "$movedir"
+	printf '%s\0' "${candidates[@]}" | runcmd xargs -0 mv "${cmdopts[@]}" -t "$movedir"
 fi
 
 summarize "$pkgcount" "${candidates[@]}"
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/deps.c b/lib/libalpm/deps.c
index 96c49a9f..6d43dd00 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/deps.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/deps.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ alpm_depend_t *_alpm_dep_dup(const alpm_depend_t *dep)
 
 /* These parameters are messy. We check if this package, given a list of
  * targets and a db is safe to remove. We do NOT remove it if it is in the
- * target list, or if if the package was explicitly installed and
+ * target list, or if the package was explicitly installed and
  * include_explicit == 0 */
 static int can_remove_package(alpm_db_t *db, alpm_pkg_t *pkg,
 		alpm_list_t *targets, int include_explicit)
diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index b85b87e5..a59e13e5 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -448,29 +448,14 @@ download_bzr() {
 	url=${url%%#*}
 
 	local repo=$(get_filename "$netfile")
-
 	local displaylocation="$url"
-	local revision=('-r-1')
-
-	if [[ -n $fragment ]]; then
-		case ${fragment%%=*} in
-			revision)
-				revision=("-r${fragment##*=}")
-				displaylocation="$url -r ${fragment##*=}"
-				;;
-			*)
-				error "$(gettext "Unrecognized reference: %s")" "${fragment}"
-				plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")"
-				exit 1
-		esac
-	fi
 
 	local dir=$(get_filepath "$netfile")
 	[[ -z "$dir" ]] && dir="$SRCDEST/$(get_filename "$netfile")"
 
 	if [[ ! -d "$dir" ]] || dir_is_empty "$dir" ; then
 		msg2 "$(gettext "Branching %s ...")" "${displaylocation}"
-		if ! bzr branch "$url" "$dir" ${revision[@]} --no-tree --use-existing-dir; then
+		if ! bzr branch "$url" "$dir" --no-tree --use-existing-dir; then
 			error "$(gettext "Failure while branching %s")" "${displaylocation}"
 			plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")"
 			exit 1
@@ -495,7 +480,7 @@ download_bzr() {
 		fi
 		msg2 "$(gettext "Pulling %s ...")" "${displaylocation}"
 		cd_safe "$dir"
-		if ! bzr pull "$url" ${revision[@]} --overwrite; then
+		if ! bzr pull "$url" --overwrite; then
 			# only warn on failure to allow offline builds
 			warning "$(gettext "Failure while pulling %s")" "${displaylocation}"
 		fi
@@ -505,11 +490,25 @@ download_bzr() {
 extract_bzr() {
 	local netfile=$1
 
+	local repo=$(get_filename "$netfile")
 	local fragment=${netfile#*#}
 	if [[ $fragment = "$netfile" ]]; then
 		unset fragment
 	fi
 
+	if [[ -n $fragment ]]; then
+		case ${fragment%%=*} in
+			revision)
+				revision=("-r" "${fragment#*=}")
+				displaylocation="$url -r ${fragment#*=}"
+				;;
+			*)
+				error "$(gettext "Unrecognized reference: %s")" "${fragment}"
+				plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")"
+				exit 1
+		esac
+	fi
+
 	local dir=$(get_filepath "$netfile")
 	[[ -z "$dir" ]] && dir="$SRCDEST/$(get_filename "$netfile")"
 
@@ -517,7 +516,8 @@ extract_bzr() {
 	pushd "$srcdir" &>/dev/null
 	rm -rf "${dir##*/}"
 
-	if ! bzr checkout "$dir" --lightweight; then
+	if ! { bzr checkout "$dir" "${revision[@]}" --lightweight &&
+		( cd "$repo" && bzr pull "$dir" -q --overwrite "${revision[@]}" ); }; then
 		error "$(gettext "Failure while creating working copy of %s %s repo")" "${repo}" "bzr"
 		plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")"
 		exit 1
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ run_function() {
 		fi
 
 		# ensure overridden package variables survive tee with split packages
-		logpipe=$(mktemp -u "$startdir/logpipe.XXXXXXXX")
+		logpipe=$(mktemp -u "$LOGDEST/logpipe.XXXXXXXX")
 		mkfifo "$logpipe"
 		tee "$BUILDLOG" < "$logpipe" &
 		local teepid=$!