For a little while I've been confused because pacman -Syu always said that everything was up to date (for a week or more). I talked to a friend at school and he had the same thing happening and I realized something might be wrong and commented out mirrors one at a time until I found one with updates (I think easynews is the one I used). The new update comes with a mirrorlist that doesn't contain the mirror I was using before (gigenet) The problem is that there's no warning that something is wrong with the old mirrors, so I'd like to suggest some sort of test so that if no updates are found for some amount of time, pacman tries a known good mirror (like the main one). To save on bandwidth, it might work best to make it only check the main repo for an updated package list and then tries the normal mirrors until it finds one with a matching package list. I'm not sure how complicated this would be be, or how worthwhile it is (I suppose Arch users are more likely than most to realize that something is wrong when updates stop), but I think it would be helpful to have some sort of test to make sure you're not updating off a seriously out of date mirror. -Brendan Long
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