pacman -S abs
pacman -S base-devel
3.As root, edit /etc/abs.conf to include your desired repositories: vim /etc/abs.conf. Remove the ! in front of the appropriate repositories, for example: REPOS=(core extra community !testing) shell
4.Download the Arch Build System(ABS) tree. As root, run:abs. Your ABS tree is now created under /var/abs. The above step is done once for all(run abs from time to time to update the source tree though). Next, vim
cp -r /var/abs/core/findutils /home/yourname/a_directory
cd /home/yourname/a_diretory makepkg