chaotic aur Synchronizing package databases repeatedly

[QiangF]

Sometimes I need to run pacman -Syu several times to get all update, because of slow internet connection.

For other repos， if I ran “pacman -Syu”several times consecutively. The data base is only need to down load once. Subsequent invocation will show something like:

 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date

But this is not the case for chaotic, it need to update the database each time. There must be something wrong.

[PedroHLC]

Check if new packages were added between the time you ran the commands: https://t.me/chaotic_aur_deploy_log

If they were not, then please provide us the first Server = you have in your /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist

[QiangF]

In my /etc/pacman.conf

[chaotic-aur]
Server = https://kr-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch

And this is the terminal output just now. I don't think there are any new packages added during this short period.

q@mypc:.dotfiles$ pacu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxcn is up to date
 arch4edu is up to date
 chaotic-aur                                                                          1611.3 KiB  28.9 KiB/s 00:56     [#####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
q@mypc:.dotfiles$ date
2022年 03月 17日 星期四 21:10:15 CST
q@mypc:.dotfiles$ pacu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxcn is up to date
 arch4edu is up to date
 chaotic-aur                                                                          1611.3 KiB  57.8 KiB/s 00:28 [#####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
q@mypc:.dotfiles$ date
2022年 03月 17日 星期四 21:10:48 CST
q@mypc:.dotfiles$ pacman -Syu
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
q@mypc:.dotfiles$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxcn is up to date
 arch4edu is up to date
 chaotic-aur                                                                          1611.3 KiB  59.9 KiB/s 00:27 [#####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...

[silent-heigou]

Thank you for reporting the problem. My web server was not handling headers of files properly including the database file of the repository. It will not be downloaded over and over now.

[PedroHLC]

@QiangF can you check if it was solved?

Thanks @silent-heigou

[QiangF]

Problem solved. Thank you!