Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year

Interestingly, I didn't get the byte total that the website says it was, loading 16957 bytes (16.5kb) rather than the advertised 6kb

This is pretty incredible...I honestly would be facinated to find out what sort of early universe event might have precipitated such a massive structure

qutebrowser doesn't really use webkit anymore. It was an alternative browser engine, but even the developers say that it isn't recommended.

It now uses the QtWebEngine, which is chromium based:

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser#requirements

QtWebKit is not recommended but it is still available if you want it: https://qutebrowser.org/doc/help/settings.html#backend. There is a ticket to remove it completely which is now targeted for V4 (https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4039) but, in reality, you could still use it.

Most mirrors (at least within the US) are now up-to-date. I finished installing pacman 6.0.2-7 a few minutes ago.

Which mirror do you use?

I got some issues with all my mirrors: the size of the last pacman package is very (too) small (60 vs 944412 for previous version). e.g. https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/core/os...

Most of the US ones now are synced. I haven't tried out other countries. Initially, there were ~130 that I tried and got a 404 on all of them for the latest pacman. When I tried again a about half an hour ago, only ~50 of the US mirrors returned a 404

I would try and generate a new mirrorlist for your locale: https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

I'm a bit confused by how pacman works.

I picked a mirror that definitely has the 6.0.2-7 version on it[0], yet Pacman can't find it.

Does the server's core.db have to update before the new version is available? Because that one is dated 18-May-2023 05:21.

0. https://archlinux.cu.be/core/os/x86_64/

Probably PEBCAK, but even the best mirrors according to

https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status

still seem unsynced on my arch systems.

The 1 Gbit/s uplink for the Tier 0 mirror has been fully saturated for almost 4-5 hours now and I expect servers to be syncing for rest of the day really.

Weird, I ran reflector which should update my mirrorlist with the 5 most recently synchronized mirrors, but I'm still not getting them.

I would just go to https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist and generate your mirrorlist there. I've heard from others that reflector isn't detected newly synced mirrors at the moment.