diff --git a/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh b/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh
index b93cda0bf2..ac2dffcfe2 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ cp -r hicolor root/usr/share/icons/
 (
     echo "Building Arch-Linux package."
     cd pkgbuild
-    sh buildpackage.sh "$VERSION" "$PACKAGEDIR" &> package.log
+    sh buildpackage.sh "$VERSION" ../root "$PACKAGEDIR" &> package.log
     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
         echo "Arch-Linux package build failed, refer to $PWD/package.log."
     fi
diff --git a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
index e13cdd53c0..ed57f0cc66 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
+++ b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ noextract=()
 md5sums=()
 
 build() {
-  cp -r ~/openra-package/built/usr/ $pkgdir/
+  cp -r {ROOT}/usr/ $pkgdir/
 }
diff --git a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh
index e9dcc86ceb..e0b48d8d79 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 E_BADARGS=85
-if [ $# -ne "2" ]
+if [ $# -ne "3" ]
 then
-    echo "Usage: `basename $0` version outputdir"
+    echo "Usage: `basename $0` version root-dir outputdir"
     exit $E_BADARGS
 fi
 
 PKGVERSION=`echo $1 | sed "s/-/\\./g"`
 sed -i "s/{VERSION}/$PKGVERSION/" PKGBUILD
+sed -i "s/{ROOT}/$2/" PKGBUILD
 
 makepkg --holdver
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-mv openra-$PKGVERSION-1-any.pkg.tar.xz $2
\ No newline at end of file
+mv openra-$PKGVERSION-1-any.pkg.tar.xz $3
\ No newline at end of file