[arch-general] pacman has nothing to do last 5 days

[Eli Schwartz]

On 12/7/19 7:06 PM, mick howe via arch-general wrote:
> For the last five days or so it reports nothing to do:-
> 
> [mick at cave ~]$ pacman -Syyuu
> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>  core                  135.1 KiB   938 KiB/s 00:00 [######################]
> 100%
>  extra                1647.8 KiB  2.68 MiB/s 00:01 [######################]
> 100%
>  community               4.7 MiB  2.66 MiB/s 00:02 [######################]
> 100%
>  multilib              164.2 KiB  2.97 MiB/s 00:00 [######################]
> 100%
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>  there is nothing to do
> [mick at cave ~]$
> 
> This is the first time in around 10 years of running Arch this has
> happened, has some thing changed in pacman that I missed?

This seems weird, what mirror are you using? Maybe the mirror is broken
and you need to update your mirrorlist.

P.S. STOP using -Syyuu, since the double y tells pacman to force
download databases even when the server says there is no update, and the
double u tells pacman to downgrade any packages the server claims are old.

If you used a plain old -Syu, then you would almost certainly see five
days worth of "[repository] is already up to date", which would be a
definite red flag that something is wrong. Now that you used -Syyuu, we
have no idea whether your pacman installation refreshed the databases
because the server said they needed to be refreshed or because you told
pacman to ignore the freshness.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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