Due to my setup I cannot make use of pacman to actually install packages, however if I install a package from the Arch repositories manually by downloading and extracting it, eg:
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/curl-7.26.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
tar -Jxvf curl-7.26.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C /
...is there a way to make pacman aware of it so that it can control future updates or un-installation?
If you're downloading packages manually, then it's easiest to install them with pacman:
pacman -U curl-7.26.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
That way they'll also get tracked like any other package. If the reason for this mode of operation was a broken system, just run pacman afterwards (when you can) and the reinstallation will take care of tracking.
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