kleintux [1] filed a deletion request for makedeb-makepkg-alpha [2]: this package replace pacman with a empty file ... # Create pacman binary touch "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pacman" chmod 555 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pacman" [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/kleintux/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/makedeb-makepkg-alpha/