So, yeah people are blowing smoke about this hosting the sources thing. That's fine, it's a legit violation... I made a little script which should generate some of these things... I'm testing it now, as it's not fully "live" just yet: http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/sources/ Here's something neat which is an added bonus: any one of these things can be used to build the entire package when offline. Download the src.tar.gz, extract, and makepkg. One big lingering issue: do we need different source tarballs for each arch? My instincts tell me yes, for a few reasons: * I recall some PKGBUILDs having CARCH based 'if's around the sources * Some packages are only in one arch or another Does anyone know of a way to solve this... I don't want to bloat the disk usage for a few special cases? mayeb md5sum and symlink?