diff --git a/srcpkgs/criu-python b/srcpkgs/criu-python
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..33c504fed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/criu-python
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+criu
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/criu/template b/srcpkgs/criu/template
index ea97b6b5e1..100c56ada4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/criu/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/criu/template
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
 # Template file for 'criu'
 pkgname=criu
-version=3.8
+version=3.8.1
 revision=1
 make_use_env=compliant
 build_style=gnu-makefile
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config python asciidoc xmlto"
-makedepends="protobuf-devel protobuf-c-devel libnl3-devel libnet-devel libcap-devel"
-depends="python-ipaddr"
+hostmakedepends="asciidoc pkg-config xmlto"
+makedepends="libcap-devel libnet-devel libnl3-devel protobuf-c-devel
+ protobuf-devel"
 short_desc="Utility to checkpoint/restore a process tree"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-only"
 homepage="http://criu.org/"
 distfiles="https://download.openvz.org/criu/criu-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=55bdd539e9ac89810fc3e8c236cc280f45e528d3fa9daabe256e285e965dbb3e
+checksum=a134ccedd84fc9377c758f204d4e997fd8fe514fd05cbdbd64939b5698865e33
+nocross="fails to run protobuf internals"
 
-only_for_archs="x86_64 x86_64-musl"
-pycompile_module="pycriu"
+case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
+	i686*) broken="unsupported upstream https://criu.org/32bit_tasks_C/R#Compatible_applications"
+esac
 
 do_install() {
 	make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} PREFIX=/usr LOGROTATEDIR=/etc/logrotate.d \
@@ -33,3 +35,15 @@ criu-devel_package() {
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
 	}
 }
+
+criu-python_package() {
+	noarch=yes
+	pycompile_module="pycriu"
+	depends="python-protobuf python-ipaddr criu-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc="Python2 bindings for criu and crit cli util"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/bin/crit
+		vmove usr/share/man/man1/crit.1
+		vmove usr/lib/python2.7
+	}
+}