--- pacman-contrib-1.4.0/configure.ac.orig	2021-06-06 10:59:55.815788900 +0200
+++ pacman-contrib-1.4.0/configure.ac	2021-06-06 10:57:04.735607300 +0200
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	AC_MSG_ERROR([*** libarchive >= 2.8.0 is needed to build pacman-contrib!]))
 
 # Check for libalpm
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBALPM, [libalpm], ,
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES_STATIC(LIBALPM, [libalpm], ,
 	AC_MSG_ERROR([*** libalpm is needed to build pacman-contrib!]))
 
 PKG_CHECK_VAR(LIBMAKEPKGDIR, [libmakepkg], [libmakepkgdir], ,
--- pacman-contrib-1.0.0/src/Makefile.am.orig	2018-07-06 23:06:38.101782600 +0300
+++ pacman-contrib-1.0.0/src/Makefile.am	2018-07-06 23:07:26.634558600 +0300
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@
 	$(LIBARCHIVE_CFLAGS) \
 	$(LIBALPM_CFLAGS)
 
+AM_LDFLAGS = --static
+
 edit = sed \
 	-e 's|@bindir[@]|${bindir}|g' \
 	-e 's|@sysconfdir[@]|$(sysconfdir)|g' \
--- pacman-contrib-v1.10.5/src/checkupdates.sh.in.orig	2024-03-16 20:28:05.000000000 +0100
+++ pacman-contrib-v1.10.5/src/checkupdates.sh.in	2024-03-17 12:49:36.397938100 +0100
@@ -126,10 +126,6 @@
 	unset ALL_OFF BOLD BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW
 fi
 
-if ! type -p fakeroot >/dev/null; then
-	die 'Cannot find the fakeroot binary'
-fi
-
 if [[ -z $CHECKUPDATES_DB ]]; then
 	CHECKUPDATES_DB="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/checkup-db-${UID}/"
 fi
@@ -148,7 +144,7 @@
 if (( SYNC )); then
 	mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATES_DB"
 	ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" &> /dev/null
-	if ! fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null; then
+	if ! pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null; then
 		die 'Cannot fetch updates'
 	fi
 fi
--- pacman-contrib-v1.5.1/src/paccache.sh.in.orig	2022-05-04 07:27:40.000000000 +0200
+++ pacman-contrib-v1.5.1/src/paccache.sh.in	2022-05-06 22:30:33.109514700 +0200
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 LIBRARY=${LIBRARY:-'@libmakepkgdir@'}
 
 declare -a cachedirs=() candidates=() cmdopts=() whitelist=() blacklist=()
-declare -i delete=0 dryrun=0 filecount=0 move=0 needsroot=0 totalsaved=0 verbose=0
+declare -i delete=0 dryrun=0 filecount=0 move=0 totalsaved=0 verbose=0
 declare -i min_atime=0 min_mtime=0
 declare    delim=$'\n' keep=3 movedir= scanarch=
 
@@ -137,16 +137,7 @@
 m4_include(../lib/size_to_human.sh)
 
 runcmd() {
-	if (( needsroot && EUID != 0 )); then
-		msg 'Escalating privileges using sudo'
-		if sudo -v &>/dev/null && sudo -l &>/dev/null; then
-			sudo "$@"
-		else
-			die 'Failed to escalate'
-		fi
-	else
-		"$@"
-	fi
+	"$@"
 }
 
 summarize() {
@@ -340,17 +331,12 @@
 if (( move || delete )); then
 	# make it an absolute path since we're about to chdir
 	[[ $movedir && ${movedir:0:1} != '/' ]] && movedir=$PWD/$movedir
-	[[ $movedir && ! -w $movedir ]] && needsroot=1
 fi
 
 for cachedir in "${cachedirs[@]}"; do
 	[[ -d $cachedir ]] ||
 		die "cachedir '%s' does not exist or is not a directory" "$cachedir"
 
-	if (( move || delete )); then
-		[[ ! -w $cachedir ]] && needsroot=1
-	fi
-
 	# unlikely that this will fail, but better make sure
 	pushd "$cachedir" &>/dev/null || die "failed to chdir to '%s'" "$cachedir"
 
--- pacman-contrib-v1.10.6/src/pacscripts.sh.in.orig	2024-05-10 22:46:19.000000000 +0200
+++ pacman-contrib-v1.10.6/src/pacscripts.sh.in	2024-05-14 08:06:17.143324200 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 error() {
 	local mesg=$1; shift
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2059
-	printf "==> $(gettext "ERROR:") ${mesg}\n" "$@" >&2
+	printf "==> $(/usr/bin/gettext "ERROR:") ${mesg}\n" "$@" >&2
 }
 
 usage() {
@@ -64,17 +64,7 @@
 }
 
 spacman() {
-	if [ $EUID -eq 0 ]; then
-		pacman "$@"
-	else
-		if ! type -p sudo; then
-			error "Cannot find the sudo binary!"
-			error "${myname} requires root privileges. Either install \"sudo\" or run as root."
-			exit 1
-		else
-			sudo pacman "$@"
-		fi
-	fi
+	pacman "$@"
 }
 
 print_db() {
@@ -93,7 +83,7 @@
 }
 
 print_pkg() {
-	if ! bsdtar -xqOf "$1" .INSTALL 2>/dev/null; then
+	if ! /usr/bin/bsdtar -xqOf "$1" .INSTALL 2>/dev/null; then
 		error "Package $1 does not include any .INSTALL script"
 		return 1
 	fi
@@ -102,7 +92,7 @@
 
 print_scriptlet() {
 	if [ -f "$1" ]; then
-		if bsdtar tf "$1" .PKGINFO &>/dev/null; then
+		if /usr/bin/bsdtar tf "$1" .PKGINFO &>/dev/null; then
 			print_pkg "$1"
 			return
 		fi
--- pacman-contrib-v1.5.1/src/updpkgsums.sh.in.orig	2022-05-06 22:28:24.662770100 +0200
+++ pacman-contrib-v1.5.1/src/updpkgsums.sh.in	2022-05-06 22:28:52.172291500 +0200
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 
 trap "rm -rf '$BUILDDIR' '$newbuildfile'" EXIT
 sumtypes=$(IFS='|'; echo "${known_hash_algos[*]}")
-newsums=$(makepkg -g -p "$buildfile" "${MAKEPKG_OPTS[@]}") || die 'Failed to generate new checksums'
+newsums=$(MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX=mingw-w64-i686 makepkg -g -p "$buildfile" "${MAKEPKG_OPTS[@]}") || die 'Failed to generate new checksums'
 
 if [[ -z $newsums ]]; then
 	die "$buildfile does not contain sources to update"
--- pacman-contrib-v1.5.3/src/pacdiff.sh.in.orig	2022-06-09 20:11:26.000000000 +0200
+++ pacman-contrib-v1.5.3/src/pacdiff.sh.in	2022-06-28 09:14:25.345624300 +0200
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 	base="$(mktemp "$tempdir"/"$basename.base.XXX")"
 	merged="$(mktemp "$tempdir"/"$basename.merged.XXX")"
 
-	if ! bsdtar -xqOf "$base_tar" "${file#/}" >"$base"; then
+	if ! /usr/bin/bsdtar -xqOf "$base_tar" "${file#/}" >"$base"; then
 		msg2 "Unable to extract the previous version of this file."
 		return 1
 	fi