[arch-general] gtk related packages reported as corrupt and blocking all updates

[Doug Newgard]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:58:06 +0200
Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> wrote:
> >
> > Use a different mirror. Yours has bad packages.
> >
> > Doug  
> 
> 
> What also bugged me when reading the thread - OP appeared to change
> mirrors - but did you double-y the re-sync after changing the mirror?
> 
> From man pacman:
> Passing two --refresh or -y flags will force a refresh of all package
> lists, even if they appear to be up- to-date.
> 
> Just since nobody seemed to point at that little detail, since it's
> pretty central to switching mirrors.
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i

That shouldn't matter a bit here. More likely he still had the old packages in
his cache.