When downloading a package with -U, alpm only checks if the package itself is in cache when deciding whether anything needs to be downloaded. So if for some reason the package is in cache but the signature file is not, there's be no attempt to download the signature and instead just throw an error. morganamilo@Octavia ~git/pacman % rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*.sig morganamilo@Octavia ~git/pacman % sudo ./build/pacman -U https://mirrors.ims.nksc.lt/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/xterm-363-1-x86_64.pkg... loading packages... error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xterm-363-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst': package missing required signature So let's just make sure to check that the package and sig file is there before downloading. Like how the -S codepath already does. --- Also, I think the way signature downloading is a bit weird. You can't just download a signature. You have to say you want to download the package then the downloader will download the sig after the package finishes downloading. I think it would make more sense for signatures to be their own payloads and then have a dlsigcb. This would go towards fixing FS#67813 If totaldlcb reports 0 packages to download, then we can show the progress bars for the sigs instead of the packages. --- lib/libalpm/dload.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/dload.c b/lib/libalpm/dload.c index df5e8be7..66ebeae9 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/dload.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/dload.c @@ -863,8 +863,27 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_fetch_pkgurl(alpm_handle_t *handle, const alpm_list_t *urls, char *url = i->data; /* attempt to find the file in our pkgcache */ + char *filepath = filecache_find_url(handle, url); - if(filepath) { + int need_download = !filepath; + /* even if the package file in the cache we need to check for + * accompanion *.sig file as well. + * If *.sig is not cached then force download the package + its signature file. + */ + if(!need_download && (handle->siglevel & ALPM_SIG_PACKAGE)) { + char *sig_filename = NULL; + int len = strlen(filepath) + 5; + + MALLOC(sig_filename, len, RET_ERR(handle, ALPM_ERR_MEMORY, -1)); + snprintf(sig_filename, len, "%s.sig", filepath); + + need_download = !_alpm_filecache_exists(handle, sig_filename); + + FREE(sig_filename); + } + + + if(!need_download) { /* the file is locally cached so add it to the output right away */ alpm_list_append(fetched, filepath); } else { -- 2.30.0