Warning after pacman upgrade

Besides the very direct text in the error itself …

This means you did not manage your pacnews.

You can further investigate by, ie

man pacman.conf

where you will notice SyncFirst is not listed as a valid option.

So the ‘answer’ is you should remove that option from your /etc/pacman.conf
(and/or additional files in /etc/pacman.conf.d/)

Which would have been apparent from /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew that would have been generated during the package upgrade.

It would have been printed out during the upgrade as well. ex

[ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew

In case an introduction to pacnews is needed …

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