Stop makepkg from removing pkgdir during install?

Hello,

I have a set of packages that have already been built (with makepkg) and want to transfer them to another system without the pkgsrc directory or the need to rebuild: just to copy all the object files to their correct locations and have the packages show up in the list of installed packages. When I try to do this, however, (using makepkg -efi) makepkg empties the pkgdir directory and tries to rebuild from an empty pkgsrc directory (I deleted the original source directory), even with --noextract.

How would I go about using the PKGBUILD file to just install the built packages from pkgdir and download dependencies without the need for a source directory?

Thank you,