Greetings, I've discovered that checkupdates script ignores failures to fetch package updates silently and exits with 0. Basically result of pacman -Sy is not handled. Obviously it would be good to let the user know whether there're no package updates or it's not possible to check. I've opened an issue on Arch Linux bug tracker: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55206 Here's a possible diff to fix the problem: $ diff pacman-5.0.2/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in ~/checkupdates.sh.in 54c54,57 < fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null ---

if ! fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null; then error 'Cannot fetch updates' exit 1 fi

Thanks! --- Andrew