However, makechrootpkg does not seem to exhibit this behavior. Reading the script, I found that makechrootpkg's internal PKGDEST is defined separately as /pkgdest and later packages are copied to externally defined PKGDEST. I could get the above desired behavior by changing the internal PKGDEST to /startdir.
Is there an easy way to configure this without modifying the makechrootpkg script itself?
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