Error: target not found: reiserfsprogs - buildiso

I am trying to build my latest ISO and I keep getting this error:
error: target not found: reiserfsprogs

Anyone else having this issue building a new ISO?

 delinuxco  delinuxco  ~  buildiso -f -p cinnamon
[sudo] password for delinuxco: 
 --> Profile: [cinnamon]
 --> detected: user-repos.conf
  -> parsing repo [delinuxco] ...
==> Start building [cinnamon]
==> Cleaning up ...
  -> Deleting chroot [rootfs] (x86_64) ...
  -> Deleting isoroot [iso] ...
 --> Loading Packages: [Packages-Root] ...
==> Prepare [Base installation] (rootfs)
 --> mirror: https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
==> Creating install root at /var/lib/manjaro-tools/buildiso/cinnamon/x86_64/rootfs
  -> Installing packages to /var/lib/manjaro-tools/buildiso/cinnamon/x86_64/rootfs
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                        141.4 KiB   118 KiB/s 00:01 [########################################] 100%
 extra                                         8.1 MiB  3.16 MiB/s 00:03 [########################################] 100%
 multilib                                    142.2 KiB   104 KiB/s 00:01 [########################################] 100%
 delinuxco                                     8.0 KiB  20.4 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
error: target not found: reiserfsprogs
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages

reiserfsprogs was recently dropped from the repositories because the upstream kernel developers themselves have chosen to no longer support reiserfs, which in and of itself was because it’s no longer being worked upon by its developers.

reiserfs version 3.x had stagnated, and its successor, reiser4, was never adopted into the upstream kernel, plus that its main architect, Hans Reiser, was convicted in the US for having murdered his estranged wife, and is currently still serving a prison sentence.

Yes, I read all of that, I have removed , error is still there, I have reinstalled it, error is still there.

Running: sudo pacman -Qi reiserfsprogs | grep 'depends on' gives me nada.

I don’t have anything reiserfs installed or in my iso-profiles.

I also cleared all caches to no avail.

-John

When will I learn! fresh iso-profiles download, then building ISO gives no error.
So there was something in my iso-profile calling for it, now I have to find it!

Check you Packages-Root - usually symlinked to shared/Packages-Root but you may have chosen to have a non-linked file in one or more profles.

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