diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 620284e..d381332 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ define rootfs
 		--noscriptlet \
 		--hookdir $(BUILDDIR)/alpm-hooks/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/ $(2)
 
-	cp --recursive --preserve=timestamps --backup --suffix=.pacnew rootfs/* $(BUILDDIR)/
+	cp --recursive --preserve=timestamps rootfs/* $(BUILDDIR)/
 
 	fakechroot -- fakeroot -- chroot $(BUILDDIR) update-ca-trust
 	fakechroot -- fakeroot -- chroot $(BUILDDIR) sh -c 'pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate && bash -c "rm -rf etc/pacman.d/gnupg/{openpgp-revocs.d/,private-keys-v1.d/,pubring.gpg~,gnupg.S.}*"'
diff --git a/pacman-conf.d-noextract.conf b/pacman-conf.d-noextract.conf
index c813919..6bcacb0 100644
--- a/pacman-conf.d-noextract.conf
+++ b/pacman-conf.d-noextract.conf
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ NoExtract   = !usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir !usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/
 NoExtract  = !usr/share/*locales/C !usr/share/*locales/POSIX !usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ANSI_X3.4-1968.gz
 NoExtract  = usr/share/man/* usr/share/info/*
 NoExtract  = usr/share/vim/vim*/lang/*
+NoExtract  = etc/pacman.conf etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist