I found that pacman was triggerin the progressbar callback twice when pointing to my repo, which uses Mirrorbrain to geolocate the closest mirror. After asking here in this list and in the curl library list, the thing was that my header redirection response had a body, so curl was triggering twice, downloading first just bytes (of the redirection) and then the proper file. I changed the dload.c code to avoid this, I don't know if it is correct to do it the way I did. Now is triggering just once. This is my modifications: --- dload_original.c 2013-01-11 10:48:21.751443000 +0100 +++ dload_new.c 2013-01-11 10:44:13.049630000 +0100 @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ { struct dload_payload *payload = (struct dload_payload *)file; off_t current_size, total_size; + alpm_handle_t *handle = payload->handle; + CURL *curl = get_libcurl_handle(handle); /* SIGINT sent, abort by alerting curl */ if(dload_interrupted) { @@ -103,6 +105,13 @@ current_size = payload->initial_size + (off_t)dlnow; + /* not show progressbar when redirection has body*/ + long respcode = 0; + curl_easy_getinfo (curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &respcode); + if (respcode == 302 && current_size > 0) { + return 0; + } + /* is our filesize still under any set limit? */ if(payload->max_size && current_size > payload->max_size) { dload_interrupted = ABORT_OVER_MAXFILESIZE;