[aur-general] [RFC] command in PKGBUILD to select archlinux mirror to download from

[Rafael Ferreira]

2015-02-05 23:44 GMT-02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo at 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=packages/avahi

Cheers,
Rafael