diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5ceb386..ff7d489 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 venv
+build
+dist
+loaih.egg-info
diff --git a/check_updates.sh b/check_updates.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5820256
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check_updates.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+pushd $(dirname $0)
+# Checking if pull is successfull
+git fetch origin
+LC_ALL=C git status | grep -q "Your branch is up to date"; retval=$?
+
+if [[ ${retval} -ne 0 ]]; then
+  # Let us update the pip installation
+  git pull
+  # for the sake of consistency, let's make the check_updates.sh script
+  # executable
+  chmod +x check_updates.sh
+  pip3 uninstall -y loaih
+  # build the actual toolkit
+  python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
+  pip3 install dist/*.whl; rv=$?
+
+  if [[ ${rv} -eq 0 ]]; then
+    # cleanup
+    rm -rf dist
+fi
+popd
diff --git a/loaih/__init__.py b/loaih/__init__.py
index 6964d1a..30161fa 100644
--- a/loaih/__init__.py
+++ b/loaih/__init__.py
@@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ class Build(object):
             self.__unpackbuild__(arch)
 
     def __unpackbuild__(self, arch, generalize = False):
+        if generalize and self.portable:
+            # Doesn't particularly make sense to build a generic portable
+            # version. Just skipping the specific generic build
+            return
+
         # We start by filtering out tarballs from the list
         buildtarballs = [ self.tarballs[arch][0] ] 
 
@@ -305,6 +310,10 @@ class Build(object):
 
         os.chdir(self.appnamedir)
         for appimage in glob.glob('*.AppImage*'):
+            if appimage.endswith('.ver'):
+                # Skipping checksums for .ver files.
+                continue
+
             # See if a checksum already exist
             if not os.path.exists(appimage + '.md5'):
                 subprocess.run("md5sum {appimage} > {appimage}.md5".format(appimage = appimage), shell=True)