i really hope this works.

extra/build.conf.sample

@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ LOGFILE="${BASEDIR}/logs/$(date +%s)"
 REGUSR="${UXNAME}"
 
 # Should the REGUSR have a password? IF THIS IS NOT SET, PASSWORD LOGIN WILL BE DISABLED!
-# If you wish to have a blank password, use the string '{[BLANK]}'.
-# You MUST USE SINGLE-QUOTES, OR ESCAPE SHELL-EXPANDED CHARACTERS (e.g. $,*,etc.)
+# If you wish to have a blank password, use the string "{[BLANK]}".
 # Do NOT use a plaintext password here. You will need to generate a salted and hashed string
 # in a shadow-compatible format.
 # Debian can do this with the mkpasswd utility (it's in Arch's AUR as debian-whois-mkpasswd):
@@ -100,11 +99,11 @@ REGUSR="${UXNAME}"
 #  ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin <USERNAME> --noclear %I 38400 linux
 # (where N is the TTY number). Alternatively, if booting to a GUI, it can be set as according
 # to that GUI (e.g. for LXDE, overlay/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf, "autologin=<USERNAME>")
-REGUSR_PASS=''
+REGUSR_PASS=""
 
 # Same exact thing as REGUSR_PASS, but for the root password (i.e. if no password hash is
 # specified, password login will be disabled, etc.).
-ROOT_PASS=''
+ROOT_PASS=""
 
 # Do we have enough horsepower on the build system to jack up the resources we throw at building?
 # Enabling this will give absolute CPU preference to building the kernels and do make-time

extra/packages.both

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ lsscsi
 lxde
 lynx
 lz4
-#lzip
+lzip
 lzo
 lzop
 macchanger
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ nettle
 networkmanager
 nginx-devel
 ngrep
-nmap
+nmap-nogui
 nmon
 ntfs-3g
 ntfsfixboot

lib/05-jenny_craig.func.sh

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ function jenny_craig () {
   # DISABLE when no longer building custom kernel
   find ${BUILDDIR}/usr/lib/modules/ -maxdepth 1 -iname "*-ARCH" -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
   find ${BUILDDIR}/ -type f -name "*.pacnew" -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
-  sed -i -e '/^MAKEFLAGS=.*$/d' ${BUILDDIR}/etc/makepkg.conf
   rm -rf ${BUILDDIR}/usr/share/locale/*
   mv -f ${BUILDDIR}/tmp/locale.alias ${BUILDDIR}/usr/share/locale/.
   rm -rf ${BUILDDIR}/var/cache/pacman/*

lib/mk.chroot.sh

@@ -181,15 +181,6 @@ EOF
    ${CHROOTCMD} ${CHROOTDIR64}/ 'pacman --noconfirm -R gcc-libs libtool' >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
    ${CHROOTCMD} ${CHROOTDIR64}/ 'pacman --noconfirm -S multilib-devel' >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
  fi
-
- # And let's do some more optimization.
- if [[ "${I_AM_A_RACECAR}" == "y" ]];
- then
-  CPUCNT=$(grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l)
-  ((CPUCNT++))
-  sed -i -e "/^[[:space:]]*#*MAKEFLAGS=.*$/aMAKEFLAGS=\"-j${CPUCNT}\"" ${CHROOTDIR64}/etc/makepkg.conf
-  sed -i -e "/^[[:space:]]*#*MAKEFLAGS=.*$/aMAKEFLAGS=\"-j${CPUCNT}\"" ${CHROOTDIR32}/etc/makepkg.conf
- fi
  
  # preprocessing
  sed -i -e '/base-devel/d ; /multilib-devel/d' ${BASEDIR}/extra/packages.*
@@ -199,11 +190,11 @@ EOF
  for i in ${CHROOTDIR32} ${CHROOTDIR64};
  do
     echo -n "...Packages installing to ${i}..."
-    ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ /usr/bin/bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm customizepkg-scripting" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+    ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm customizepkg-scripting" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
     for x in $(find ${i}/etc/ -type f -iname "*.pacorig");do mv -f ${x} ${x%%.pacorig} ; done
     echo -n "Compiling kernel sources..."
     set +e
-    ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ /usr/bin/bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm linux" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+    ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm linux" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
     set -e
     # Uncomment if you wish to use the mkpasswd binary from within the chroot...
     #${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm debian-whois-mkpasswd" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
@@ -212,7 +203,6 @@ EOF
     set +e
     ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ bash -c "yes '' | yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm ${PKGLIST}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
     for x in $(find ${i}/etc/ -type f -iname "*.pacorig");do mv -f ${x} ${x%%.pacorig} ; done
-    # User creation
     set -e
     echo -n "...Creating ${REGUSR} user..."
     ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ useradd -m -s /bin/bash -c "Default user" ${REGUSR} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
@@ -222,23 +212,21 @@ EOF
     echo "${REGUSR} ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> ${i}/etc/sudoers.d/${REGUSR}
     if [ -n "${REGUSR_PASS}" ];
     then
-      #${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ "/usr/bin/echo ${REGUSR}:${REGUSR_PASS} | chpasswd -e" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
-      sed -i -e "s|^${REGUSR}::|${REGUSR}:${REGUSR_PASS}:|g" ${i}/etc/shadow
+      ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ "echo ${REGUSR}:${REGUSR_PASS} | chpasswd -e" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
     elif [[ "${REGUSR_PASS}" == '{[BLANK]}' ]];
     then
-      ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ passwd -d ${REGUSR} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+      continue
     else
-      ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ usermod -L ${REGUSR} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+      sed -i -e "s/^${REGUSR}::/${REGUSR}:!:/g" ${i}/etc/shadow
     fi
     if [ -n "${ROOT_PASS}" ];
     then
-      #${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ "/usr/bin/echo root:${ROOT_PASS} | chpasswd -e" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
-      sed -i -e "s|^root::|root:${ROOT_PASS}:|g" ${i}/etc/shadow
+      ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ "echo ${root}:${ROOT_PASS} | chpasswd -e" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
     elif [[ "${ROOT_PASS}" == '{[BLANK]}' ]];
     then
-      ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ passwd -d root >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+      continue
     else
-      ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ passwd -d root >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+      sed -i -e 's/^root::/root:!:/g' ${i}/etc/shadow
     fi
     # The following is supposed to do the same as the above, but "cleaner". However, it currently fails with "execv() failed: No such file or directory"
     ##${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ usermod -L root >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
@@ -247,7 +235,8 @@ EOF
  
  for i in ${CHROOTDIR32} ${CHROOTDIR64};
  do
-  ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ /usr/bin/bash -c "mkinitcpio -p linux-${PNAME}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+echo "[DEBUG] ${i}: mkinitcpio" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+  ${CHROOTCMD} ${i}/ bash -c "mkinitcpio -p linux-${PNAME}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
  done
  
  # 32-bit
@@ -255,10 +244,12 @@ EOF
  PKGLIST=$(sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/d ; /^[[:space:]]*$/d' ${BASEDIR}/extra/packages.32 | tr '\n' ' ')
  if [ -n "${PKGLIST}" ];
  then
-   ${CHROOTCMD} ${CHROOTDIR32}/ /usr/bin/bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm ${PKGLIST}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+echo "[DEBUG] 32-bit: installing packages" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   ${CHROOTCMD} ${CHROOTDIR32}/ bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm ${PKGLIST}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
  fi
  set +e
  for x in $(find ${CHROOTDIR32}/etc/ -type f -iname "*.pacorig");do mv -f ${x} ${x%.pacorig} ; done
+echo "[DEBUG] 32-bit: pacorig move" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
  set -e
  echo "Done."
  
@@ -267,10 +258,12 @@ EOF
  PKGLIST=$(sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/d ; /^[[:space:]]*$/d' ${BASEDIR}/extra/packages.64 | tr '\n' ' ')
  if [ -n "${PKGLIST}" ];
  then
-   ${CHROOTCMD} ${CHROOTDIR64}/ /usr/bin/bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm ${PKGLIST}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+echo "[DEBUG] 64-bit: installing packages" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   ${CHROOTCMD} ${CHROOTDIR64}/ bash -c "yaourt -S --needed --noconfirm ${PKGLIST}" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
  fi
  set +e
  for x in $(find ${CHROOTDIR64}/etc/ -type f -iname "*.pacorig");do mv -f ${x} ${x%.pacorig} ; done
+echo "[DEBUG] 64-bit: pacorig move" >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
  set -e
  echo "Done."