Is pacman -S archlinux-keyring one of the first post-installation notes for archlinux? If not, that could maybe help those new to archlinux. On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
On 6/23/21 11:01 AM, mikau--- via arch-general wrote:
On 2021-06-22 12:03, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote:
It turns out installing archlinux-keyring fixed this problem. I wasn't aware that package was missing from this system.
I recently had a similar problem where an -Syu didn't work until manually upgrading archlinux-keyring. I think if pacman were to do this automatically (if upgrading multiple packages and archlinux-keyring is one of them, upgrade it first), we could get rid of this inconvenience.
This used to exist as "SyncFirst", but it was a pile of hot garbage so it got removed. e.g.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-February/015123.html