> > This seems weird, what mirror are you using? Maybe the mirror is broken > and you need to update your mirrorlist. > Updated mirrorlist to 2019-10-01 and selected all australian mirrors and then had to disable arnet, now all goodish > 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. noted and done > 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. > Been using Syyuu almost since I started using Arch, first time I noticed > any badness with pacman thanks