Use en_US.UTF-8 and de_DE.UTF-8 by default (the latter is needed for some packages like gcc)

implements FS#20246

Fixes FS#20041

Thise code was copied from makepkg

Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>

Signed-off-by: Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>

Signed-off-by: Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>

CARCH might be used within the PKGBUILD to select correct sources

implementes FS#18437

The checks aren't reliable enough and fail if the local repo is broken due to
network failures. So for now we just allways commit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>

This is a regression introduced after switching to rsync in place of scp;
scp dereferenced symlinks automatically without need for a command-line
option.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>

1) Typo cachedir -> cache_dir
2) Use $cache_dir when calling pacman

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>