Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:54:34 +0100 schrieb Timm Preetz <timm@xxxxxxxxx>: > I think ftp.archlinux.org can be pretty slow sometimes (compared to > near-by mirrors), so wouldn't it be equally sufficient to just fetch > the DB-checksum from archlinux.org? This is not possible cause mirrors sync times are different, so the result was: newer package versions in the db - but the package file is not available on users mirror. (I've had make the same request earlier in a bugtracker thread, without thinking a bit deeper... ;-) Regards Gerhard