On 3/21/21 9:39 AM, Marco Rubin via pacman-dev wrote:
Hello, I'd like to propose a change to pacman, but I don't know if someone is already working on it for the next release. I think it would be useful if pacman could hold the first working mirror when downloading updates. Yesterday I was upgrading all my packages and, for some reason, the first five mirrors timed out after a few seconds, so every time pacman was downloading a package, it checked all the mirrors from the beginning until it found one where to grab the updated package. I had many old packages so this process quickly became a little frustrating, and to me it would have been faster if it remembered the first working mirror instead of checking all of them every time.
Can you try out the 6.0.0 alpha release? http://allanmcrae.com/2020/12/pacman-6-0-0alpha1/ -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User