diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c46a212..8007244 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Software Installation Tool (SIT)
 --------------------------------
 
 SIT is a simple software installation tool inspired by gentoo's emerge script.
-It eases the installation process and helps to prevent errors during the 
+It eases the installation process and helps to prevent errors during the
 installation as well as helps with the documentation as it generates a lot of
 log files and installes them together with the softwre package.
 
@@ -17,16 +17,16 @@ convenience it should look like following
 The global configuration file of SIT is $SIT_PATH/etc/sit.conf
 It includes a variety of default values:
 * PREFIX_BASE
-* SRC_POOL     
+* SRC_POOL
 * SCLASS_DIR
 
 * DEFAULT_PLATFORM
 * DEFAULT_COMPILER
 
-A user specific configuration file $HOME/.sit" can be used to overwrite the 
+A user specific configuration file $HOME/.sit" can be used to overwrite the
 settings in the global configuration file.
 
-The installation process is currently controled with the following environment 
+The installation process is currently controled with the following environment
 variables:
 * COMPILER
 * COMPILER_VERSION
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ variables:
 Sit detects currently the build platform using the SITE_PLATFORM_NAME variable.
 If sit cannot determine the PLATFORM it uses the default platform specified
 in sit.conf.
-For each platform configuration files are stored unter 
+For each platform configuration files are stored unter
   $SIT_PATH/etc/platform-configs/$PLATFORM/*
 
 At the moment only compiler configurations are supported.
 
 
-To install a package simply call sit with the necessary information provided by 
+To install a package simply call sit with the necessary information provided by
 these variables:
 > [VARIABLE_DECLARATIONS] sit PACKAGE
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ BUILDDIR        directory in which the package will be build ($SRCDIR/build)
 LOGDIR          directory storing the temporary logfiles ($WORKDIR)
 
 
-For fine tuning of the installation process the user can overwrite the following 
+For fine tuning of the installation process the user can overwrite the following
 functions. If not other mentioned they are executed in $BUILDDIR
 
 src_unpack      extract $SRC_POOL/${A} into $WORKDIR
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ src_install     make install
 src_posttest    tests to be done after installation
 
 
-The following helper functions can be used 
+The following helper functions can be used
 
 unpack      recognize and extract a compressed tar file