diff --git a/ChangeLog-current.txt b/ChangeLog-current.txt
index c982468..8557604 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-current.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog-current.txt
@@ -20,4 +20,8 @@ enhancements:
     artourter for the report.
   * Modify links in check_for_latest() function to use new sbopkg.org
     redirects.
+  * Prevent sbopkg from spitting error messages when trying to determine the
+    version of some packages (e.g. google-chrome, whose version is discovered
+    looking into the source package which can be missing). Thanks to alkos333
+    for the bug report.
 +--------------------------+
diff --git a/src/usr/doc/KNOWN_ISSUES b/src/usr/doc/KNOWN_ISSUES
index 593bd61..5529220 100644
--- a/src/usr/doc/KNOWN_ISSUES
+++ b/src/usr/doc/KNOWN_ISSUES
@@ -15,3 +15,13 @@ tools it uses:
   Details: http://code.google.com/p/sbopkg/issues/detail?id=30
 
   Workaround: use dialog's own exit methods - its buttons, escape, ^C, etc.
+
+* when checking for updates, for some packages Sbopkg may tell you
+  "Note: repo version not obtainable by standard method, may be inaccurate.".
+  This happens with packages whose version is very difficult/impossible to
+  determine without actually building the package -- one example of this at
+  the time of writing is the google-chrome package, whose version is picked
+  from the source archive itself. In these cases sbopkg falls back to trusting
+  the .info file, and warns the user about it.
+
+  Workaround: none needed
diff --git a/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg b/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg
index 9f2ae0b..99681b1 100755
--- a/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg
+++ b/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg
@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ check_for_updates() {
     # Giachero for this much-improved update code and related functions!
 
     local TEMPFILE=$SBOPKGTMP/sbopkg_updates_tempfile
+    local ERRORMSG=$SBOPKGTMP/sbopkg_updates_errormsg
     local NEWSB NEWINFO NEWVER
     local VERSION_EXPRESSION
     local UPDATELIST VERSION_FILE PROGRESSBAR_INTERRUPTED
@@ -657,7 +658,7 @@ check_for_updates() {
     # Check to see if there are any updates to installed SBo pkgs.
     check_if_repo_exists
     UPDATELIST=$SBOPKGTMP/sbopkg_updatelist
-    rm -f $UPDATELIST
+    rm -f $UPDATELIST $ERRORMSG
     cd /var/log/packages
     PKGS=$(ls *$REPO_TAG 2> /dev/null)
     NUMPKGS=$(wc -w <<< "$PKGS")
@@ -737,19 +738,20 @@ check_for_updates() {
 
                 # Step 3 - reverse the file order
                 # Because dependencies must be first...
-                tac $VERSION_FILE > $TEMPFILE
+                tac $VERSION_FILE >> $TEMPFILE
                 mv $TEMPFILE $VERSION_FILE
 
                 # Step 4 - let's get the version number!
                 # Also, strip any residual program name token.
-                NEWVER=$(sh $VERSION_FILE | rev | cut -d- -f1 | rev)
+                NEWVER=$(sh $VERSION_FILE 2> $ERRORMSG | sed 's/.*-//g')
                 rm -f $VERSION_FILE
 
                 # Step 5 - fixup braindead cases
                 # Sometimes the above doesn't work -- see cpan2tgz for 12.1
                 # In that case, let's trust the .info file...
-                if [[ -z $NEWVER ]]; then
-                    NEWINFO=$(echo $NEWSB | rev | cut -d. -f2- | rev).info
+                [[ -z $NEWVER ]] && echo "Empty version!" >> $ERRORMSG
+                if [[ $(< $ERRORMSG) ]]; then
+                    NEWINFO=$(sed 's/\.SlackBuild$/\.info/g' <<< "$NEWSB")
                     NEWVER=$(grep "^VERSION" $NEWINFO | cut -d\" -f2)
                 fi
 
@@ -808,12 +810,17 @@ check_for_updates() {
                         echo "  No update." >> $UPDATELIST
                     fi
                 fi
+                if [[ $(< $ERRORMSG) ]]; then
+                    echo "  Note: repo version not obtainable by" \
+                        "standard method, may be inaccurate." >> $UPDATELIST
+                fi
             else
                 if [[ $DEBUG -ge 1 ]]; then
                     echo $NAME: >> $UPDATELIST
                     echo "  Not in the repository." >> $UPDATELIST
                 fi
             fi
+            rm -f $ERRORMSG
 
             # Progress indicator, for the progressbar
             (( PROGRESSCOUNTER += 1 ))
@@ -1542,9 +1549,9 @@ queue_dir_lister() {
         -maxdepth 1 | sed -e 's/.sqf//' | sort > $QFM
     if [[ -z $(< $QFM) ]]; then
         if [[ $DIAG ]]; then
-            rm -f $QFM
             dialog --title "ERROR" --msgbox "$(crunch "The queue directory \
                 $QUEUEDIR is empty.")" 8 30
+            rm -f $QFM
             return 1
         fi
     fi