I do not know.
I’d advise you to not use pamac anymore.
Use yay or some other AUR helper instead.
and:
post terminal output / error messages
no one can offer anything beyond speculation when not seeing what you see …
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Have you tried a force refresh of the local AUR database, as was suggested in post #3 of this thread:
There are no errors. It just says nothing to do and exits.
… and why do you doubt that?
Because I know the other PC has code that is 100’s of commits past what is on the machine that claims “nothing to do”.
… refresh the list of mirrors … the two may have been using different ones …
or check whether the software versions are the same on both or not …
have we seen any (useful) package manager’s output?
… from both to compare?
no? 
I’m not sure what you mean by versions.
I know the one that has worked is 1.1.0.40303
and the one that is stuck is at 1.1.0.40267
The former was at 1.1.0.40267 when I issued the pamac command on both earlier today.
And, yes, I see now it’s only 36 merges old…
… of what package / software?
They should be the same
if the mirrors are in sync
use yay instead of pamac
or some other AUR helper
I do not trust or use pamac - except perhaps for taking care of removals
I know this is Manjaro - and it uses pamac …
it’s still not reliable.
Use something else.
and:
AUR is generally unsupported by Manjaro anyway
Manjaro testing or unstable branch are closer to Arch - which the AUR assumes to be used upon.
@drmacro Well, have you? 
Comparing package manager logs between the 2 systems would show when pamac missed freecad updates
grep freecad /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2025
I experienced a similar problem with google-chrome on my partner’s system a few years ago.
pamac update --aur could not find an updated package, but pamac build google-chrome built the latest version and resolved issue with the update command
$ pamac update -a
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ==== Synchronizing package databases... Refreshing extra.db... Refreshing AUR... Cloning google-chrome build files... Generating google-chrome information... Checking google-chrome dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Checking inter-conflicts... To upgrade (2): firefox 135.0.1-1 (135.0-1) extra 77.1 MB firefox-i18n-en-gb 135.0.1-1 (135.0-1) extra 341.2 kB To build (1): google-chrome 133.0.6943.126-1 (133.0.6943.53-1) AUR
What is more important for your workflow: Having the latest git version? or Having both system running the same package version ?
If you want to keep using freecad-git from AUR, I suggest:
- Update repository packages first -
pamac update --no-aur - Build AUR packages individually -
pamac build freecad-git
If having both systems using the same package version is more important, freecad-weekly-appimage might be more reliable than freecad-git
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