

-S
should not even try to refresh the database, that is what -Sy
is for. And doing any variation of -Sy
without also u
(upgrade) is the unsupported partial “upgrade”, so it is possible that the time changes but only in the case of misuse.
Also noticed you can just check the mtime of the directory itself, /var/lib/pacman/sync
- directory mtime does not change when the files change content but pacman/alpm probably downloads the new databases to some temp files then moves them into the directory, changing it’s modify time (see stat
, stat -c '%Y'
).
Is this a try at some joke I dont get? Flared != flat?
This is what flared usually looks like