2015-02-05 23:44 GMT-02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io>:
Why can't you download the source tarball and build from there?
In 'lib32-pam' (as well as 'pam') case, the tarball pam_unix2-2.9.1.tar.bz2 was stored in Arch Linux repository for some reason (maybe the upstream gone offline). So, lib32-pam is built from source code, but one tarball is fetched from Arch Linux server. Some other lib32 packages simply won't build. While my desire is to build from source code, some depend on software not much multilib-friendly, like python. Example of packages that depend on python is avahi [1]. In these case, maintainers (including myself) have no option but to provide the lib32 package built from Arch's 32bit package, available in the mirrors. So, a nice workaround might bring a better solution for end-user around the world. [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=... Cheers, Rafael