pacman always upgrading database

arnuld · 2009-08-05 16:58:40

[root@drunken ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      33.4K   33.9K/s 00:00:01 [############################################################] 100%
 extra                    412.6K   27.6K/s 00:00:15 [############################################################] 100%
 community                371.1K   28.8K/s 00:00:13 [##########################################################] 100%

pacman always syncronizes data base. Even after 1 min of pacman -Syu it still upgrades the data base. It worsk fine on the installation side, never downloads/upgrades the same package again, I mean it never upgrades the packages more than once system is updated, it is fine. Only the pacman's database of packages (core, community and extra) keeps on upgrading all the time. Earlier it used to say something like core datbase is up to date but now, from last 1 month I can upgrade data base 60 times an hour, anytime of day. Any solutions ?

Crows · 2009-08-05 17:02:21

Is the mirror you're using http? I seem to recall that pacman needs ftp mirrors to be able to tell if the list needs updating. Http mirrors must be re-downloaded every time.

arnuld · 2009-08-05 17:31:05

Crows wrote:

Is the mirror you're using http? I seem to recall that pacman needs ftp mirrors to be able to tell if the list needs updating. Http mirrors must be re-downloaded every time.

You got it right. Its last month I chanegd the mirrors to http. I made that change as rankmirrors shows the time for syncing as ftp = 3 x http , means it says http sync is in 1.8 sec but same ftp mirror syncs in around 3.8 or 5.76 sec. I don't know why pacman says so, but it is consistent in claiming so.

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#1 2009-08-05 16:58:40

pacman always upgrading database

#2 2009-08-05 17:02:21

Re: pacman always upgrading database

#3 2009-08-05 17:31:05

Re: pacman always upgrading database

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